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ADHD goes in this IDEA category
What is OHI or Other Health Impairment?
a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age 3; often associated with repetitive activities, stereotyped movements, resistance to change, and unusual responses to sensory experiences
What is Autism?
a condition where children have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses or are legally blind
What is vision impairment?
Individuals in this category may have a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
What is ED or emotional disturbance?
impairment in one or more of the following areas: articulation, language, fluency, and voice
What is SLI or Speech or Language Impairment?
significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior
What is Intellectual Disability?
The IDEA category that includes schizophrenia
What is Emotional Disturbance?
Cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures are in this IDEA category
What is OI or orthopedic impairment?
An impairment caused by a congenital anomaly or disease (i.e., spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, or cerebral palsy)
What is OI or orthopedic impairment?
not being able to process linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification
What is deafness?
an acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force resulting in functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both
What is Traumatic Brain Injury?
Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes severe communication and educational needs
What is deaf-blindness?
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 math
What is SLD or specific learning disability?
Or, what is LD or learning disability?
The only age-restricted IDEA category for young children behind in cognitive development, physical development, communication development, social-emotional development, and/or adaptive development
What is Developmental Delay?
“concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness, intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments
What is multiple disabilities?
means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness
What is OHI or Other Health Impairment?
Individuals in this category may be unable to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers and may have inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.
What is emotional disturbance?
This term includes partial sight and blindness
What is visual impairment?
This category includes students with chronic or acute health problems (i.e., asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, and leukemia) that can adversely affect a child's educational performance
What is Other Health Impairment?
Learning new things is more difficult than would be expected for individuals with this disability because they have average or above-average intelligence. They have difficulties learning new academic skills efficiently (i.e., listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical skills).
What is SLD or specific learning disability?
Or, what is LD or learning disability?
means a communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation
What is SLI or Speech or Language Impairment?
Unfortunately the archaic term "hearing impairment" is still in IDEA, but it's better to use this term instead.
What is hard of hearing?
This category includes dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and dyslexia.
What is SLD or specific learning disabilities?
Or, what is LD or learning disabilities?
Students may have varied impairments in cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem-solving, sensory, perceptual, information processing, and speech due to a brain injury.
What is TBI or traumatic brain injury?
May have a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.
What is ED or emotional disturbance?