Intellectual Disability
Emotional Disturbance
Traumatic Brain Injury
Orthopedic Impairment
Deafness
Autism
Multiple Disabilities
Learning Disability
Speech or Language Impairment
Deaf- Blindness
Other Health Impairment
Hearing Impairment
Visual Impairment
…a hearing impairment so severe that it impairs the processing of linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, and adversely affects educational performance.
…communication disorder (such as stuttering, impaired articulation, language impairment, or voice impairment) that adversely affects educational performance
…an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force or by certain medical conditions, with resulting impairments that adversely affect educational performance
…a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction that adversely affects educational performance and is generally evident before age 3
…one or more of the following characteristics: inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships, Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings, generally pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression, etc.
…impairment to vision that, even with correction, adversely affects educational performance
…severe physical impairment that adversely affects a student’s educational performance
…concomitant impairments, the combination of which causes major educational needs that cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely designed to address one of the impairments
…impaired strength, vitality or alertness (including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli) that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment.
…characterized by significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving), existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects educational performance.
…impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects educational performance but is not included under the definition of deafness in this section
…characterized by the combination of concomitant hearing and visual impairments, which results in severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for students with Deafness or students with Visual Impairment or Blindness.
…a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that manifests itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations
