IDEA Disability Categories

Which two are NOT categories of disability under IDEA?

• Hearing impairment, Speech & Language Impairment

• Cerebral Palsy, ADHD

• Traumatic brain injury, Specific Learning Disability

• Emotional Disturbance, Orthopedic Impairment

Which one is a category of disability under IDEA?

• Orthopedic services

• Speech assistance

• Behavior disorders

• Other Health Impairment

Which is a category of disability under IDEA?

• IDEA

• Emotional intelligence

• Serious emotional disturbance

• Interpersonal Intelligence

This disability affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction skills and adversely affects a child's educational performance. also includes repetitive activities, stereotyped movements, resistance to change, and unusual responses to sensory experiences.

• Autism

• Intellectual Disability

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• Special Learning Disability

This disability is an inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual or sensory factors and includes an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.

• Intellectual disability

• Emotional disturbance

• Autism

• Special Learning Disability

This disability includes significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, also with deficits in adaptive behavior.

• Autism

• Hearing Impairment

• Traumatic Brain Injury

• Intellectual Disabilities

Having limited strength, vitality or alertness (or a heightened alertness) to environmental stimuli that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment. Includes ADHD.

• Other Health Impairments

• Orthopedic Impairments

• Speech & Language Impairments

• Specific Learning Disabilities

A disorder in using language which results in an imperfect ability to listen, speak, read, write, spell, or do math.

• Orthopedic Impairment

• Intellectual Disability

• Autism

• Specific Learning Disability

When individuals have more than one impairment which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special ed programs solely for one of the impairments. (EX: Intellectual disability and Autism)

• Profound disabilities

• Multiple Disabilities

• Severe disabilities

• Emotional Disturbance

Which category is used when the child is under the age of 9 and there are delays in physical, cognitive, communication, social or emotional, or adaptive development, and they require special ed services.

• Intellectual delay

• Development delay

• Early childhood special ed

• Speech delay