1.1. 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 a child’s educational performance.
2. Autism
2.1. A developmental disability affecting verbal and non-verbal communication and social interaction. Diagnosed before the age of three, affects a child's educational performance.
3. Visual impairment, including blindness
3.1. An impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
4. Deaf-blindness
4.1. A disability affecting one's hearing and vision.
5. Speech or language impairment
5.1. A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
6. Deafness
6.1. Hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
7. Developmental delay
7.1. A delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication; social or emotional development; or adaptive behavioral development.
8. Hearing impairment
8.1. An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
9. Multiple disabilities
9.1. Simultaneous impairments such as intellectual disability-blindness, intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment. Students cannot be accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments.
10. Other health impairment
10.1. Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment.
11. Emotional disturbance
11.1. a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance: This term also includes schizophrenia.
12. Orthopedic impairment
12.1. A severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease and impairments from other causes.
13. Intellectual disability
13.1. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently [at the same time] with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
