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relationships with peers and teachers; (c). Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal
circumstances; (d). A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or
school problems; (e). A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. Includes students
who are schizophrenic, but does not include students who are socially maladjusted, unless it is
determined they are emotionally disturbed.
6. HEARING IMPAIRMENT. An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that
adversely affects a student’s educational performance, but is not included under the definition of
deafness.
7. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. Significantly below-average general intellectual functioning, existing
concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior. This type of disability is manifested during the
developmental period and adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
8. ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENT. A severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a student’s
educational performance. That term includes congenital impairments such as club foot or absence
of some member; impairments caused by disease, such as poliomyelitis and bone tuberculosis; and
impairments from other causes such as cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns causing
contractures.
9. OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENTS. 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 and that adversely affects a student’s
educational performance. Such impairments may include, but are not necessarily limited to,
attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, heart condition, tuberculosis,
rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, seizure disorder, lead poisoning,
leukemia, or diabetes.
10. SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY. A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes
involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language that may manifest itself as an
imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, remember, or do mathematical
calculations. This term includes such conditions as, recognizing that they may have been otherwise
labeled with terms such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia. This term does not include learning problems that are primarily the
result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities; intellectual disability; emotional disturbance; or
environmental, cultural, or economic differences.
11. SPEECH OR LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS. A communication disorder such as stuttering; impaired
articulation; limited, impaired or delayed capacity to use expressive and/or receptive language; or a
voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
12. 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 educational performance. Includes open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in
one or more areas including cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking,
judgment, problem solving, sensory, perceptual and motor abilities, psychosocial behavior, physical
function, information processing, and speech. The term does not include brain injuries that are
congenital or degenerative or brain injuries that are induced by birth trauma.
13. VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, INCLUDING BLINDNESS. An impairment of vision that, even with correction,
adversely affects a student’s educational performance. Term includes both partial sight and
blindness.
14. MULTIPLE DISABILITIES. Concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness or
intellectual disability-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 do not include deaf-blindness, which is set forth as its own
type of disability.
Se at the end of this chapter.