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IDEA Disability Categories
14 Disability categories under IDEA 2004
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Psychology
Graduate
01/30/2010

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Specific Learning Disability

Definition

disorder in 1 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 to do math calculations


including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.


(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.)

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Autism

Definition

a developmental disability significantly affecting:

  • verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction,
  • evident before age 3
  • adversely affects a child's educational performance.

Other characteristics:

  • engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements
  • resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines
  • unusual responses to sensory experiences.
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Deaf-blindness

Definition

 

 

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.

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Deafness

Definition

a hearing impairment that is so severe

 

child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing


with or without amplification

 

that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

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Emotional disturbance

Definition

a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects educational performance:


(A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.

(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.

(C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances.

(D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.

(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.

(ii) Emotional disturbance includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.

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Hearing impairment

Definition

 

an impairment in hearing

  • permanent or
  • fluctuating
  • adversely affects educational performance

 

but not included under the definition of deafness in this section.

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Mental retardation

Definition

 

 


significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning

 

existing concurrently with:

  • deficits in adaptive behavior
  • manifested during the developmental period
  • adversely affects educational performance
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Multiple disabilities

Definition

concomitant impairments

(e.g. MR-blindness or MR-orthopedic impairment)



the combination causes:

  • such severe educational needs
  • cannot be accommodated in programs solely for 1 of the impairments


Multiple disabilities does not include deaf-blindness.

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Orthopedic impairment

Definition

a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

 

The term includes impairments caused by:

  • congenital anomaly
  • disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis)
  • other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).
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Other health impairment

Definition
  • limited strength, vitality, or alertness
  • heightened alertness to env stimuli, results in ltd alertness to educational env.
  • adversely affects educational performance

 

Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as:

  • asthma
  • ADD or ADHD
  • diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome
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Speech or language impairment

Definition

a communication disorder

 

  • stuttering
  • impaired articulation
  • a language impairment
  • a voice impairment

 

that adversely affects educational performance

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Traumatic brain injury

Definition

an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force

 

  • total or partial functional disability
  • psychosocial impairment (or both)
  • that adversely affects a child's educational performance.

open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory, perceptual, and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

 

does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.

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Visual impairment

Definition

an impairment in vision that

 

even with correction

 

adversely affects a child's educational performance

 

 

 

includes both partial sight and blindness.

 

 

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Developmental Delay

Definition

children - birth to 3

children - 3 to 9

 

a delay in one or more of the following areas:

  • physical
  • cognitive
  • communication
  • social or emotional
  • or adaptive [behavioral]
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