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Federal Disabilities Definitions
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| Autism | Developmental delay that affects verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction |
| Deaf-Blindness | Concomitant hearing and visual impairments |
| Deafness | Hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing |
| Developmental Delay | Child of three to five years who is experiencing a delay in Physical development; Cognitive development; Communication development; Social or emotional development; or Adaptive development. |
| 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 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation-blindness or mental retardation-orthopedic impairment), 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 include deaf-blindnes |
| Orthopedic Impairment | 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), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures). |
| Other Health Impairment | 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, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; |
| Specific Learning Disabilities | 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 the 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. |
| Speech or Language Impairment | 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 | 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 functions; 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 | 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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PACE High School |
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