Statistics and Prevalence
United States
B
- One out of six (15%) children ages 3-17 have an intellectual disability (CDC, 2015)
- In the 2010-2011 school year, 447,000 students with an intellectual disability, and 381,000 students with a developmental cognitive delay received services nationally (CDC, 2015).
- An estimated 4.6 million Americans have an intellectual disability or cognitive disability (The ARC, 2011).
- One out of every 691 babies born in the United States has Down Syndrome (National Down Syndrome Society, 2012).
- 400,000 people in the U.S. have Down Syndrome (NDSS, 2012).
- 6,000 babies with Down Syndrome are born every year in the U.S. (NDSS, 2012).
- 1% of all cases of Down Syndrome are hereditary (NDSS, 2012).
- Because diagnosing takes many different tests, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome numbers range greatly from 0.3-50 per 1,000 school age children (CDC, 2015).
- In 2002, the estimated cost for one person with FASD was over $2 million; costing the U.S. over $4 billion each year (CDC, 2015).
- Fragile X Syndrome occurs in 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 8,000 females (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2012).
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is the number one cause of intellectual, and developmental cognitive disabilities in Minnesota
- Around 27,000 babies each year are born with FASD in Minnesota
- Per 1,000 births, between .6-4.5 children are born with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Minnesota
- Between 2006 and 2010, for every 10,000 births, 1.2% of Whites, 1.7% of Blacks, and 1.5% of Hispanic children were born with Down Syndrome.
- 15 babies out of every 10,000 between 2006-2010 born in Minnesota had Down Syndrome
- In 2010, 3.1% of all children ages 2-17 had an intellectual disability in Minnesota, while 14% had a developmental delay that affected their learning.
B