QUICK STATS

Did You Know?

• 600 million people worldwide have a disability (source: www.joniandfriends.org)
• 170-190 million people worldwide have intellectual disabilities
  (source: www.specialolympics.org)
• Of the 54 million Americans with disabilities, an estimated 8.1 million are children and young adults (source: The Wall Street Journal/www.wsj.com)
• There are more than 6.5 million brothers and sisters of siblings with health, developmental and mental health concerns (source: The Sibling Support Project of the ARC of the United States/www.thearc.org/siblingsupport)
• People with disabilities now represent the single largest minority group in the world