The Learning Disabled: A disorder related to processing information that leads to difficulties in reading, writing, and computing; this is the most common.
Speech or Language Impairment (SLI): a disorder related to accurately producing the sounds of language or meaningfully using language to communicate.
Mental Retardation (MR): significant limitations in intellectual ability and adaptive behavior; ranges in severity.
Emotional Disturbance (ED): significant problems in the social-emotional area to a degree that learning is negatively affected.
Autism: a disorder characterized by extraordinary difficulty in social responsiveness: ranges in severity.
Hearing Impairment (HI): a partial or complete loss of hearing
Visual impairment (VI): a partial or complete loss of vision
Deaf-Blindness: a simultaneous significant hearing loss and significant vision loss.
Orthopedic Impairment (OI): a significant physical limitation that impairs the ability to move or complete motor activities.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): a medical condition denoting a serious brain injury that occurs as a result of accident or injury
Other health Impairment (OHI): a disease or health disorder so significant that it negatively affects learning; cancer, sickle-cell anemia, and diabetes.
Multiple disabilities: the simultaneous presence of two or more disabilities such that none can be identified as primary.
Developmental Delay (DD): a nonspecific disability category that states may choose to use as an alternative to a specific disability label.
Speech or Language Impairment (SLI): a disorder related to accurately producing the sounds of language or meaningfully using language to communicate.
Mental Retardation (MR): significant limitations in intellectual ability and adaptive behavior; ranges in severity.
Emotional Disturbance (ED): significant problems in the social-emotional area to a degree that learning is negatively affected.
Autism: a disorder characterized by extraordinary difficulty in social responsiveness: ranges in severity.
Hearing Impairment (HI): a partial or complete loss of hearing
Visual impairment (VI): a partial or complete loss of vision
Deaf-Blindness: a simultaneous significant hearing loss and significant vision loss.
Orthopedic Impairment (OI): a significant physical limitation that impairs the ability to move or complete motor activities.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): a medical condition denoting a serious brain injury that occurs as a result of accident or injury
Other health Impairment (OHI): a disease or health disorder so significant that it negatively affects learning; cancer, sickle-cell anemia, and diabetes.
Multiple disabilities: the simultaneous presence of two or more disabilities such that none can be identified as primary.
Developmental Delay (DD): a nonspecific disability category that states may choose to use as an alternative to a specific disability label.