Categories
Difficulties in reading, writing, speaking, or doing math. Some examples include discalculia, dysgraphia, and dyslexia.
What is specific learning disability?
Mental health issues including anxiety, depression, bipolar, and oppositional defiant disorders.
What is emotional disturbance?
Range of vision problems
What is visual impairment, including blindness?
Every student must receive a free, challenging education and if needed, an IEP, regardless of their disability
What is Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)?
The greatest possible degree that a student can be educated with their non disabled peers
What is the least restrictive environment (LRE)?
Deficits in speech, including stuttering and lisping. Includes language disorders.
What is speech or language impairment?
Late in developmental milestones such as talking and walking. Cannot be used after age 9.
What is developmental delay?
Includes brain injuries that occur at some point after an individual is born
What is traumatic brain injury?
Determining whether the student qualifies for a disability and what their educational needs are.
What is appropriate evaluation?
Stakeholders are involved in all educational decisions
What is parent and student participation in decision making?
Wide range of conditions including epilepsy, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome. ADHD is an example.
What is other health impairment?
Used when the individual is medically fragile or requires intensified support. An example is intellectual disability and blindness.
What is multiple disabilities?
Severe hearing and vision loss requiring unique support
What is deaf-blindness?
A document that outlines the educational needs of a student, evaluated each year by an experienced multidisciplinary team
What is an individualized education plan (IEP)?
Parents are entitled to notices in writing, access to student records, and have procedural protections.
What are procedural safeguards?
Common disability characterized by repetitive behavior, social and communication deficits, and restricted interests.
What is Autism spectrum disorder?
Range of issues with hearing
What is hearing impairment, including deafness?
Inadequate intellectual ability. An example includes Down syndrome.
What is intellectual disability?
What is orthopedic impairment?