CATEGORIES OF DISABILITIES by IDEA

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

1.1. Accommodations, adapting instruction, supplementary aids and services

2. Deaf-Blindness: Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments

2.1. Accommodations, equipment and material.Braille

3. Deafness: severe hearing impairment

3.1. Accommodations,equipment and material, visuals

4. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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