In order to qualify for special education, the IEP team must determine that a child has one of the following:
- Autism.
- Blindness.
- Deafness.
- Emotional Disturbance.
- Hearing Impairment.
- Intellectual Disability.
- Multiple Disabilities.
- Orthopedic Impairment.
In this regard, what disabilities are covered under IEP?
They are:
- Autism.
- Deaf-blindness.
- Deafness.
- Emotional disturbance.
- Hearing impairment.
- Intellectual disability.
- Multiple disabilities.
- Orthopedic impairment.
Beside above, what are the 13 disabilities covered by IDEA? To be covered, a child's school performance must be “adversely affected” by a disability in one of the 13 categories below.
- Specific learning disability (SLD)
- Other health impairment.
- Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
- Emotional disturbance.
- Speech or language impairment.
- Visual impairment, including blindness.
- Deafness.
Keeping this in consideration, what is a disability in special education?
(1) Child with a disability means a child evaluated in accordance with §§300.304 through 300.311 as having an intellectual disability, a hearing impairment (including deafness), a speech or language impairment, a visual impairment (including blindness), a serious emotional disturbance (referred to in this part as “
What are the categories of special needs?
There are four major types of special needs children:
- Physical – muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, chronic asthma, epilepsy, etc.
- Developmental – down syndrome, autism, dyslexia, processing disorders.
- Behavioral/Emotional – ADD, bi-polar, oppositional defiance disorder, etc.
