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Categories of Disability Under IDEA

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Categories of

WHO RECEIVES SPECIAL


Disability EDUCATION
under IDEA
Autism

 A developmental disability significantly affecting


verbal and nonverbal communication and social
interaction, generally evident before age three, that
adversely affects a child’s educational
performance. Other characteristics often
associated with autism are engaging in repetitive
activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to
environmental change or change in daily routines,
and unusual responses to sensory experiences.
Deaf-Blindness

 Concomitant [simultaneous] hearing and visual


impairments, the combination of which causes such
severe communication and other developmental
and educational needs that they cannot be
accommodated in special education programs
solely for children with deafness or children with
blindness.
Deafness

 A hearing impairment so severe that a child is


impaired in processing linguistic information through
hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely
affects a child's educational performance.
Emotional Disturbance

 A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics


over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely
affects a child’s educational performance:
 An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or
health factors.
 An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships
with peers and teachers.
 Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
 A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
 A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with
personal or school problems.
The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children
who are socially maladjusted,
unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.
Hearing Impairment

 An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or


fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s
educational performance but is not included under
the definition of "deafness."
Intellectual Disability (Mental
Retardation)

 Significantly sub-average general intellectual


functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time]
with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested
during the developmental period, that adversely
affects a child’s educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities

A combination of impairments (such as mental


retardation-blindness, or mental retardation-
physical disabilities) that causes such severe
educational problems that the child cannot be
accommodated in a special education program
solely for one of the impairments. The term does not
include deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairment

 A severe orthopedic impairment that adversely


affects educational performance. The term includes
impairments such as amputation, absence of a
limb, cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis, and bone
tuberculosis.
Other Health Impairment

 Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to


chronic or acute health problems such as a heart
condition, rheumatic fever, asthma, hemophilia,
and leukemia, which adversely affect educational
performance.
Specific Learning Disability

 A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological


processes involved in understanding or in using
language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself
in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read,
write, spell, or do mathematical calculations. This
term includes such conditions as
perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain
dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
This term does not include children who have
learning problems that are primarily the result of
visual, hearing, or motor disabilities; mental
retardation; or environmental, cultural or economic
disadvantage.
Speech and Language
Impairment

 A communication disorder such as stuttering,


impaired articulation, language impairment, or a
voice impairment that adversely affects a child's
educational performance.
Traumatic Brain Injury

 An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external


physical force, resulting in total or partial functional
disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that
adversely affects a child's educational performance.
The term applies to open or closed head injuries
resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as
cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning;
abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory,
perceptual and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior;
physical functions; information processing; and speech.
The term does not apply to brain injuries that are
congenital or degenerative, or brain injuries induced
by birth trauma
Visual Impairment

Visual Impairment
An impairment in vision that, even with correction,
adversely affects a child's educational performance.
The term includes both partial sight and blindness.

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