Youth: Primary Disability of Beneficiaries
 

Youth Receiving Intensive Benefit Support

The most common primary disabilities for youth served by BPAO were cognitive disabilities and mental/emotional disorders. Collectively, these accounted for more than 60 percent of youth receiving BPAO services. Injury, cancer/neoplasm, and infectious diseases were the least common disabilities, representing less than one percent of the population.

Primary Disability of Beneficiaries
Under Age 22
(N=1510)
Primary Disability Percentage
Mental and Emotional Disorders
26.6
System Diseases (e.g. nervous, endocrine, cardiac, etc.)
9.3
Non-Spinal Cord Orthopedic Disabilities/Amputations
37.2
Cognitive Disabilities (Mental Retardation)
7.0
Spinal Cord Injury
4.3
Blind or Visual Impairment
3.2
Traumatic Brain Injury
3.4
Hearing, Speech, and other Sensory Impairments
4.9
Infectious Diseases
0.3
Cancer / Neoplasm
0.3
Injury
0.1
Other
3.4
Unknown
0.1

 

VCU Benefits Assistance Resource Center
Preliminary Draft - Subject to Further Verification
March 31, 2003