Who are the students included in the students with disabilities group?
North Carolina’s public schools serve students with disabilities who have wide-ranging abilities and needs. About 190,000 of the state’s 1.3 million students, or 14.5 percent, are students with disabilities. Student groups within this category, in order of prevalence, are: specific learning disabled, speech-language impaired, behaviorally-emotionally disabled, other health impaired, developmentally delayed (ages 3-7), educable mentally disabled, autistic, trainable mentally disabled, hearing impaired, multihandicapped, orthopedically impaired, visually impaired, severely/profoundly mentally disabled, traumatic brain injured, and deaf/blind. Students with disabilities may be impacted by other factors including limited English proficiency, poverty, attendance, gender, race, ethnicity and culture.
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