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Multiple Disabilities Eligibility Guide
(Students with Severe/Profound Disabilities)
"Multiple disabilities" means 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.
Required Assessments
Observation; review of existing school educational and health records; educational impact analysis.
The CSC must gather the necessary information to meet the eligibility criteria.
Recommended Assessments to assist the CSC to meet eligibility criteria
After review of all records, the CSC determines if there is a need to obtain additional assessments (e.g.
medical, developmental history, cognitive, language).
Criteria
There is documentation of severe multiple disabilities. Simultaneous impairments (such as intellectual
disability with blindness, intellectual disability with orthopedic impairment) are present and individual
specific disability eligibility criteria worksheets are used as a guide.
AND
There is documentation that the combination of impairments causes such severe educational
needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the
impairments.
AND
The student does not have deaf-blindness.
* Students with severe to profound general learning disabilities are likely to be severely impaired in their
functioning in respect of a basic awareness and understanding of themselves, of the people around
them.