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5. Comprehensive school pupils receiving part-time special education in the academic year 2008-2009 by primary reason for special education ¹⁾

Primary reason for part-time special education	Pre-primary education	Year-classes 1–6	Year-classes 7–9	Additional education	Total	Change from previous year	Change from previous year, %	Boys	Girls
Speech disorder	1 509	14 800	134	–	16 443	–778	–4,5	10 288	6 155
Reading or writing disorder	589	48 453	3 552	14	52 608	–586	–1,1	34 364	18 244
Learning difficulty in mathematics	74	19 074	10 631	26	29 805	1 329	4,7	13 608	16 197
Learning difficulty in foreign languages	6	2 545	9 373	12	11 936	303	2,6	7 001	4 935
Difficulties in adjustment or emotional disorder	100	3 020	3 717	2	6 839	574	9,2	5 264	1 575
Other learning difficulties	384	5 136	4 730	8	10 258	759	8,0	6 635	3 623
Total	2 662	93 028	32 137	62	127 889	1 601	1,3	77 160	50 729
Compared with number of pupils in comprehensive school, %	20,3	26,5	16,4	4,8	22,8	.	.	26,9	18,5
Number of pupils in comprehensive school on 20 Sept 2008	13 128	351 095	195 543	1 295	561 061	–9 628	–1,7	287 311	273 750

1) Data on part-time special education were collected on those having received part-time special education in the academic year 2008–2009. Each pupil is entered in the table only once according to the primary reason for part-time special education. The pupils accepted or transferred to special education who received part-time special education in addition to other special teaching arrangements are also counted as having received part-time special education.

Source: Education 2009. Statistics Finland

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Director in charge: Jari Tarkoma

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Updated 11.6.2010