Chart 1.8
Proportion of Adults with Disabilities Requiring Aids or Devices by Type of Disability
Speech 6 percent
Agility 11 percent
Other 16 percent
Learning 18 percent
Seeing 91 percent
Mobility 43 percent
Hearing 56 percent
n= As a proportion of those within a particular disability. It is an expression of the rate of need within the particular disability.
Source: PALS , 2001