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SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES: Teacher Handbook
QUALIFYING DISABILITES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION
 AUTISM
A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and non-verbal
communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three,
that adversely affects educational performance.
DEAF
A hearing impairment which is so severe that a child is impaired in processing
linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification,
which adversely affects educational performance.
DEAF-BLIND
Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which
causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational
problems that a child cannot be accommodated in special education programs
solely for deaf children or blind children.
HARD OF
HEARING
A hearing impairment, whether permanent or fluctuating, which adversely
affects a child’s educational performance but which is not included
under the definition of “deaf.”
MENTALLY
RETARDED
Significantly below average general intellectual functioning existing
concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during
the developmental period, which adversely affects a child’s educational
performance.
MULTI-HANDICAPPED
Simultaneous impairments (such as mentally retarded/blind) the combination
of which causes such severe educational problems that the child cannot
be accommodated in a special ed. Program solely for one of the impairments.
The term does not include deaf-blind children.
ORTHOPEDICALLY
IMPAIRED
A severe orthopedic impairment which adversely affects a child’s
educational performance. This term includes impairments caused by a congenital
anomaly (e.g. clubfoot,absence of some member, etc.), impairments caused
by disease (poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc.) and other causes (cerebral
palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns which cause contractors).
OTHER HEALTH
IMPAIRMENTS
Having limited strength,vitality or alertness, due to chronic or acute
health problems such as heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever,
nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning,
leukemia, or diabetes, which adversely affects a child’s educational
performance.
EMOTIONALLY
DISTURBED
- A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics
over a long period of time and to a marked degree, which adversely affects
educational performance.
- An inability to learn which 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
- This term includes children who are schizophrenic
SPECIFIC
LEARNING DISABILITY
- A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved
in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may
manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read,
write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
- The term includes such conditions as perceptual handicaps, brain injury,
minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, developmental aphasia, and nonverbal
learning disabilities.
- The term does not include children who have learning problems which
are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps, of
mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural,
or economic disadvantage.
SPEECH/LANGUAGE
IMPAIRED
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation,
a language impairment, or a voice impairment, which adversely affects
a child’s educational performance.
TRAUMATIC
BRAIN INJURY
An injury to the brain caused by an external physical force or by
an internal occurrence such as stroke or aneurysm, resulting in total
or partial functional disability or psycho social maladjustment that adversely
affects educational performance.
VISUALLY
IMPAIRED
A visual impairment which, even with correction adversely affects
a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partially
seeing and blind children.
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