Cognitive
Name one of the eligibilities that does not require a cognitive assessment
Deafblind, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Visually Impaired, Orthopedic Impairment,
The two areas you need to assess for an Intellectual Disability eligibility.
Adaptive and intellectual functioning
This eligibility requires a medical diagnosis.
Other Health Impairment
This eligibility has social maladjustment as an exclusionary factor
Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
This eligibility requires a speech language pathologist.
Speech-Language Impairment
Requires at least two IQ tests for eligibility
Intellectual Disability
This eligibility area interferes with the acquisition or maintenance of auditory skills necessary for the normal development of speech, language, and academic achievement
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
This eligibility requires a summary of the child’s pre-injury functioning.
Traumatic Brain Injury
This eligibility has EBD as an exclusionary factor.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
These are the four levels of Intellectual Disability Eligibility.
Mild, Moderate, Severe, and Profound
Rather than a traditional comprehensive assessment, children with Deaf/Hard of Hearing Eligibility requires these.
Audiological, ontological, and educational
This eligibility does not apply to conditions that are congenital or degenerative in nature.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Requires a developmental history documenting developmental differences and delays before age 3.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
This eligibility does not apply to a child experiencing a slight or temporary lag in development.
Significant Developmental Delay
Children with this eligibility need to be reported to the Georgia Census
Deafblind
Cognitive referencing is not permissible as the only criteria for determining this eligibility.
Speech-Language Impairment
This eligibility includes an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and/or teachers. For preschool-age children, this would include other care providers.
Emotional and Behavioral Disorder
For eligibility, children can NOT function lower that the criteria outlined for mild intellectual disability.
Orthopedic Impairment
Autism does not apply if a child’s educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the child has this eligibility.
Emotional Behavioral Disorder
This law applied to all children ages 3 – 21.
Free Appropriate Public Education
If the WISC-V measures IQ at 42, this is the most likely eligibility (Be very specific)
Moderate Intellectual Disability
This eligibility is for delays in young children that without special intervention may adversely affect age appropriate educational activities.
Significant Developmental Delay
This eligibility requires that a written summary of at least one structured observation that demonstrates the child’s inability to progress.
Intellectual Disability
Intellectual disabilities, Emotional disturbances are exclusionary factors for this eligibility.
Other Health Impairment
LEA’s must provide access to many things, however they can never mandate that a parent use this.
Medication