Definition
a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3 that adversely affects a child's educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with ___________ are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not apply if a child's educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has an emotional disturbance.
What is autism?
An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
What is a visual impairment?
A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing; with or without amplification that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is deafness?
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What are free points?
Rose cannot hear, so she needs an interpreter in all of her classes. What category of IDEA does she qualify under?
What is deafness?
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 to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
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What are free points?
A significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is mental retardation?
Johnny has an IQ of 44. Also, Johnny does not adapt to new situations well. Johnny falls under this category of IDEA.
What is mental retardation?
Mario struggles mightily with both his hearing and seeing. He would fall under this category of IDEA.
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.
What is a traumatic brain injury?
Severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects the child's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (e.g., clubfoot, absence of some member, etc.), impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc.), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
What is an Orthopedic Impairment?
Concomitant 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
What is Deaf-Blindness?
Someone with cerebral palsy would qualify under this category of IDEA.
What is an Orthopedic Impairment?
Pablo struggles in math class, but he is excelling in reading and writing. He fits this category of IDEA.
What is a Specific Learning Disability?
Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational
environment, that—
(a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia,
nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and
(b) adversely affects a child's educational performance
What are other health impairments?
A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance
What are speech or language impairments?
A concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation-blindness, mental retardation-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
What are Multiple Disabilities?
Brian got into a major car accident where he was hit very hard in the head, and as a result, he struggled with his motor skills. Brian falls under this category of IDEA.
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
Serena has an amputated hand, and she is on the autistic spectrum. She falls under this category of IDEA.
What are multiple disabilities?
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:
(a) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
(b) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
(c) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under
normal circumstances.
(d) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
(e) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is Emotional Disturbance?
An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness in this section.
What is a hearing impairment?
There are four categories of IDEA that pertain to hearing. These are the four categories.
What are deaf-blindness, deafness, hearing impairments, and multiple disabilities?
Tory has schizophrenia. She falls under this category of IDEA.
What is an Emotional Disturbance?
Devin cannot focus in class, and his doctors diagnose him with ADHD. He falls under this category of IDEA.
What are Other Health Impairments?