Opportunities For Serving Adults With Disabilities – A Look At The Numbers

When you look into the number of people with disabilities in the United States, a couple of things become clear:

This population is big, and getting bigger
Exactly how big is open to interpretation

Let’s start with the broadest measure: In the 2010 U.S. Census, about 56.7 million people — nearly 20% of the population — reported having a disability of some kind, which also included issues with vision and hearing. About half of that group said their disability was “severe.” Both of those numbers have almost certainly gone up in the past seven years (along with the general . . .