TY - JOUR T1 - PRevalence of selected impairments, united states, july 1963-june 1965. Y1 - 1969/06/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160130049 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 740 EP - 740 VL - 123 IS - 6 N2 - This is a report based on household interviews with a representative sample of the US population during the period July 1963 to June 1965. It was discovered that about 5.4 million Americans have visual impairments; 8.5 million, hearing difficulties; 1.3 million, speech defects. There were about 1.5 million cases of paralysis, 2 million patients with missing extremities, and 17.7 million had orthopedic defects. This is a detailed analysis, classified according to demographic variables. SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160130049 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160130049 ER -