CATEGORIES OF DISABILITIES by IDEA

1. Developmental Delay: a delay in the physical development,cognitive development,communication,social or emotional development, and/or adaptive development. Including 2 categories: children from birth to 3 years and children from ages three to nine

2. Emotional disturbance: a condition exhibiting in some characteristics over a long period of time that adversely affects a child's educational performance

3. Hearing impairment: Impeirment in hearing that adversely affects a child's educational performance,but not included under definition of "deafness"

3.1. Accommodations, read loud,amplification equipment,specialist in a non verbal language...

4. Intellectual Disability: significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning that adversely affects a child's educational perfomance

4.1. reducing reading level,reducing the difficulty of assignments,

5. Multiple Disabilities: The combination of of some causes such severe education needs that they cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely

5.1. Accommodations, extended time,repeat directions,read aloud,manipulative, etc.

6. Orthopedic Impairment: Severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance

6.1. Accommodations, adapted equipment,such as a special seat, supplementary services

7. Other health impairment: different chronic or acute health problems that adversely affects a child's educational performance

7.1. Accommodations,extended time,frequent breaks,visuals....

8. Specific Learning Disability: Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language,spoken or writen

8.1. Accommodations, working in a small group, breaking up testing over several days,giving copies of teacher's lecture notes, reducing the difficulty of assignments.....

9. Speech or Language Impairment: Communication disorder that adversely affects child's educational performance

9.1. Accommodations, using a word processor for writing work.....

10. Traumatic Brain Injury: total or partial functional disability or/and psychosocial impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance

10.1. Accommodations,working one-one with the teacher, using specialist in class,reducing levels of difficulty in general, repeat directions....

11. Visual Impairment Including Blindness: iImpairment in vision that affects adversely a child's educational performance

11.1. Accommodations, allowing answers to be given orally,braille, provide audiotape lectures or book

12. Autism: developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and noverbal communication

12.1. Accommodations, adapting instruction, supplementary aids and services

13. Deaf-Blindness: Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments

13.1. Accommodations, equipment and material.Braille

14. Deafness: severe hearing impairment

14.1. Accommodations,equipment and material, visuals