IDEA 13 categories of disabilities
Intellectual Disability: ...means significantly subaverage 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.
and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities: are simultaneous disabilities, except deaf-blindness, the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be
accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
Orthopedic Impairment: ...means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments
caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
Other Health Impairment: ...means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited
alertness with respect to the educational environment.
alertness with respect to the educational environment.
Specific Learning Disability: means 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 the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematics.
Traumatic Brain Injury: ...means 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.
impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Visual Impairment including Blindness: ...means an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness