by Gina Sickmeier

• Lifelong developmental disability that includes autistic disorder, Asperger's syndrome, and other pervasive developmental disorders.

• Disability that even with best correction affects the student's ability to use vision for learning which adversely affects the student's educational performance.

• Manifested during the developmental period, characterized by significant limitations in cognitive functioning, demonstrated through limitations in adaptive behavior, adversely affects educational performance.

• Disability that, with or without amplification, adversely affects the student's ability to use hearing for developing language and learning, educational performance, and developmental progress.

• Hearing/vision loss or reduction causing significant communication and adaptive behavior deficits, adversely affecting educational performance, cannot be accommodated for by use of a program/service designed for students who are: deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or low vision.

• At least 3 years of age, not over 5, or 5 years of age but not eligible to enroll in kindergarten. Delay of either 3 standard deviations below the mean in one of the following developmental areas or 1.5 standard deviations below the mean in any 2 of the following developmental areas: gross/fine motor, cognitive, receptive/ expressive language, social/emotional, self-help /other adaptive development.

• Inability to learn or progress not explained by cognitive, sensory, or health factors, exhibits characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects educational performance.

• Language impairments in the comprehension or expression of spoken or written language .

• Coexisting disabilities, one of which must be a significant cognitive disability.

• Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment.

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• Severe physically disabling condition that adversely affects educational performance.

• Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that adversely affect the student's educational performance.

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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 student's educational performance.

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• American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).• http://www.aapd.com/site/c.pvI1IkNWJqE/b.5406299/k.FBCC/Spotlight.htm

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t.htm• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities – Other

Health Impairment.• http://www.nichcy.org/Disabilities/Specific/pages/healthimpairment.as

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• National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education (NAPCSE).

• http://www.napcse.org/ • National Center for Learning Disabilities.• http://www.ncld.org/ • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – National

Institutes of Health.• http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tbi/tbi.htm•  •  

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• Famous People with Mood Disorders• http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/mooddisorders-

famous.shtml•  Famous People with Speech Differences• http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/speech-famous.shtml•  Education for Students with Multiple Disabilities• http://www.perkins.org/resources/scout/students-with-multiple-

disabilities/•  Other Health Impairments• http://www.projectidealonline.org/healthImpairments.php•  Famous People With Learning Disabilities• http://www.learningrx.com/pictures-of-famous-people-with-learning-

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