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Autism
Deaf-Blindness
Deafness or Hearing Impairment
Developmental Delays
Emotional Disturbances
Mental Retardation
Multiple Disabilities
Orthopedic Impairments
Specific Learning Disability
Speech or Language Impairment
Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual Impairment
Other Health Impairment
Autism
This is 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 autism 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
Deaf-Blindness
Deaf-blindness means 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.
Deafness or Hearing
Impairment
Deafness means 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.
Hearing impairment means 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.
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Deaf
Developmental
Delay
Children aged 3 to 8 experiencing developmental delays as
measured by appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more
of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development,
communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive
development; and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related
services.
Emotional
Disturbance
The term means 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:
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an inability to learn that cannot be
explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
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an inability to build or maintain
satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
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inappropriate types of behavior or
feelings under normal circumstances.
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a general pervasive mood of unhappiness
or depression.
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a tendency to develop physical symptoms
or fears associated with personal or school problems.
The term does not apply to children who are socially
maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.
Mental Retardation
Mental retardation means significantly sub-average general
intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive
behavior and manifested during the developmental period, the
adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Multiple
Disabilities
Multiple disabilities means 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.
Orthopedic
Impairments
Orthopedic impairment means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely
affects a child's educational performance. The term includes impairments
caused by congenital anomaly (e.g., clubfoot, absence of some member, etc.),
and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and
fractures or burns that cause contractures).
Specific
Learning Disability
The term means 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 an 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. The term does not include
learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor
disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of
environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Speech or Language
Impairment
Speech or language impairment means a communication
disorder, such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or
a voice impairment, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
Traumatic Brain
Injury
Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to
the brain by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial
functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely
affect a child's educational performance. The term applies to open or
closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as
cognitive; language memory; attention; reasoning; abstract; thinking'
judgment; problem-solving; sensory perceptual, and motor abilities;
psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.
The term does not apply to injuries that are congenital, or to brain injuries
by birth trauma.
Visual Impairment
Visual impairment including blindness means an impairment
in vision that even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational
performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
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Blind
Other
Health Impairments
Other health impairments means having limited strength,
vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental
stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational
environments, that 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, and sickle cell anemia; and adversely affects a
child's educational performance.
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