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This Child Fatality information provided by the Injury & Violence Prevention section of the Office of Disease Prevention & Epidemiology.
- Special Topics 5. Deaths Among Disabled Children  Child Fatality Review teams classified children who died as to whether or not that child was disabled. This classification was based on review of records from schools, early intervention programs, Healthy Start, SCF, law enforcement agencies, medical records, and family reports. Disability was defined as any physical, social, emotional, or learning disability. Fourteen percent (25) of the deaths reviewed occurred among children who were identified by local teams to be disabled in some way. The Mental Health and Developmental Disability Services Division has estimated that 2.8% of Oregon children are disabled. The Oregon Department of Education Early Intervention/Early childhood Education and School-Age Special Education estimated that 11% of Oregon children have a disability. These numbers suggest that disabled children in Oregon were between 1.2-4.2 times more likely than non-disabled children in Oregon to die from unexpected causes in 1999. Recommendations to Prevent Deaths Among Disabled Children
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