Definitions of Disability Terms

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Definitions of Disability Terms

Autism A developmental disability affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affect a child’s educational performance. Engagement in repetitive or stereotyped movements Resistance to change in daily routines Unusual responses to sensory experiences

Deaf-Blindness Hearing and Vision Impairment 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 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.

Emotional Disturbance 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: A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory or other 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.

Hearing Impairment An hearing Impairment, 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.

Mental Retardation Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

Multiple Disabilities Relates to a combination of disabilities such as; mental retardation, blindness, or orthopedic impairments, the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. Multiple disabilities does not included deaf-blindness.

Orthopedic Impairment Severe orthopedic Impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis) Impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures).

Other Health Impairment Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment. And is Due to a chronic or acute health problems such as Asthma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a Heart Condition, Hemophilia, lead poisoning, Leukemia, Nephritis, Rheumatic fever, Sickle Cell Anemia and Tourette Syndrome Adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

Specific Learning Disability A Specific Learning Disability is 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 dto do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia and developmental aphasia.

Speech and Language Impairment A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment or voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

Traumatic Brain Injury An acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Traumatic Brain Injury applies to 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 functiongs; information processing; and speech. Traumatic Brain Injury does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.

Visual Impairment including Blindness Impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.