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Approximately 120,000 babies are born each year with birth defects.

Children with disabilities need inclusion and acceptance, love, and understanding. Friendships are important.

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12 percent of elementary children in public schools have some type of disability.

Approximately 3,300,000 of the 26,138,000 children enrolled in grades K—6 in the United States are receiving special educational services.

The Honeybee Books website is a student project site.  It is not intended to be an actual ordering website but rather an illustration of website design.  Some of the books mentioned are not available in print at the present time.  Many are in print and available through www.Amazon.com.  This project site hopes to bring awareness to the many children suffering from birth-related conditions and illnesses.  Several links to full websites related to children’s disabilities are provided.

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Birth Defect Statistics

  • Definition of a birth defect: Abnormal development of the fetus resulting in death, malformation, growth retardation, and functional disorders.
  • Approximately 3 percent of all children born in the United States have a major malformation at birth. Many more show problems of developmental origin with time, e.g., 6 to 7 percent by one year of age and 12 to 14 percent by school age.
  • Birth defects, including low birth weight, are the leading cause of infant mortality.
  • About 10 percent of problems seen at birth can be traced to a specific agent (environmental agent, drug, biologic, or nutritional factor). About 20 percent are inherited or are associated with chromosomal changes. The rest (about 70 percent) are of unknown etiology, although a 1991 report from the General Accounting Office found that a majority of experts believe that a quarter or more of birth defects will be found to have been environmentally induced.
  • The medical costs of care for children with disabilities resulting from birth defects have been estimated to exceed $1.4 billion annually.
  • While some types of birth defects have decreased, mainly through preventive methods, many have increased. According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study of 38 types of birth defects occurring over the period 1979-89, 27 had increased, including several cardiac defects, chromosomal defects such as trisomy 18, and fetal alcohol syndrome; nine had remained the same; and only two had decreased.

    • http://pcrm.org/research/resch/mod/birth-defect-statistics

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