Special Education Today:Statistics
Approximately 290,000 or 14% of the population of students in publicly funded elementary and secondary education receives special education programs and services.
Nearly two-thirds of these students have been identified as "exceptional" using one of the 12 categories of exceptionality issued to school boards by the Ministry of Education.
The other one-third of students have no been formally identified, but are reported by school boards to be receiving special education programs and services.
Breakdown of the twelve exceptionalities
Learning Disabilities 43.3%
Multiple 5.1%
Gifted 13.0%
Autism 4.1%
Mild Intellectual 12.9%
Physical 1.6%
Behaviour 6.8%
Deaf and Hard of Hearing 1.2%
Language Impairment 5.9%
Blind and Low Vision 0.4%
Speech impairment 0.3%
retrieved from: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/research/speced_aera_csse.pdf
Nearly two-thirds of these students have been identified as "exceptional" using one of the 12 categories of exceptionality issued to school boards by the Ministry of Education.
The other one-third of students have no been formally identified, but are reported by school boards to be receiving special education programs and services.
Breakdown of the twelve exceptionalities
Learning Disabilities 43.3%
Multiple 5.1%
Gifted 13.0%
Autism 4.1%
Mild Intellectual 12.9%
Physical 1.6%
Behaviour 6.8%
Deaf and Hard of Hearing 1.2%
Language Impairment 5.9%
Blind and Low Vision 0.4%
Speech impairment 0.3%
retrieved from: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/research/speced_aera_csse.pdf