Physical Disorders
High Incidence Disabilities
Low Incidence Disabilities
SPED Facts
IU Facts
100
Characterized by paralysis, weakness, uncoordination, and/or other motor dysfunction and sometimes intellectual disability.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
100
Impairments that impact the comprehension or expression of spoken or written language resulting from organic or nonorganic causes that are nonmaturational in nature, or fluency, articulation, and voice disorders in the student's speaking behavior
What are Language or Speech Impairments?
100
A disability that even with best correction affects the student's ability to use vision for learning, which adversely affects the student's educational performance.
What is Blind or Low Vision?
100
The legally binding document that spells out exactly what special education services a child with disabilities will receive written with goals and objectives.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Plan)?
100
Won the Oaken Bucket game over Thanksgiving.
What is Indiana University Football Team
200
An abnormal electrical discharge in the brain.
What is seizure disorder?
200
Impairments that result in students 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 is due to chronic or acute health problems, such as asthma, ADHD, Tourette's, diabetes, etc... AND adversely affects a student's educational performance.
What is OHI (Other Health Impaired)?
200
A disability category solely for students who are at least three (3) years of age and not more than five (5) years of age, or five (5) years of age but not eligible to enroll in kindergarten.
What is Developmental Disability?
200
The educational right of children with disabilities in the United States that is guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
What is FAPE (Free and Appropriate Public Education)?
200
The local gray stone that many of the buildings on campus are made from.
What is limestone?
300
The failure of the spinal column to close during fetal development.
What is Spinal Bifida?
300
A disorder in one (1) or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that adversely affect the student's educational performance, including conditions referred to, or previously referred to, as perceptual handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.
What is Specific Learning Disability (SLD)?
300
An inability to learn or progress that cannot be explained by cognitive, sensory, or health factors. The student exhibits characteristics, such as a general pervasive mood of unhappiness, the inability to build or maintain interpersonal relationships or inappropriate behaviors or feelings under normal circumstances, over a period of time and adversely affects educational performance.
What is an Emotional Disability?
300
The federal law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
300
The number of National Championship Banners currently hanging in Assembly Hall.
What is 5?
400
An acute inflammation around the joints that may cause chronic pain and other complications.
What is Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?
400
A disability manifested during the developmental period and is characterized by significant limitations in cognitive functioning. It is demonstrated through limitations in adaptive behavior; and adversely affects educational performance
What is a Cognitive Disability?
400
Coexisting disabilities that are lifelong and interfere with independent functioning, and it is difficult to determine which disability most adversely affects educational performance.
What are Multiple Disabilities?
400
Possessing cognitive superiority, creativity, and motivation of sufficient magnitude to set the child apart from traditional same age peers.
What is giftedness?
400
The name of the IU yearbook.
What is The Arbutus?
500
A degenerative disease causing a progressive weakening and wasting away of muscle.
What muscular dystrophy?
500
A condition characterized by severe problems with distractibility and impulsivity that has very recently been considered in its own category in IDEA.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
500
A lifelong developmental disability that is generally evident before three (3) years of age and significantly affects verbal, nonverbal, or pragmatic communication and social interaction skills and results in an adverse effect on the student's educational performance.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
500
The setting in which a student who has a disability should have the opportunity to be educated with non-disabled peers, to the greatest extent appropriate.
What is LRE (Least Restrictive Environment)?
500
The year IU was established.
What is 1820?