Autism
Autism means a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance. Other characteristics often associated with autism are engagement in repetitive activities and stereotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. The term does not apply if a daughter/son's educational performance is adversely affected primarily because the daughter/son has serious emotional disturbance, as defined in definition (9b) of the section.
(Note: if the daughter/son manifests characteristics of the disability autism after age three,
that daughter/son still could be diagnosed as having autism if the criteria in the preceding paragraph is satisfied.)
Deaf-Blindness
Deaf blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for a daughter/son with deafness or a daughter/son with blindness.
Deafness
Deafness means having hearing impairment that is so severe that the daughter/son is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance.
Hearing Impairment
Hearing impairment means impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness in this section.
Mental Retardation
Mental retardation means significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities
Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as mental retardation-blindness, mental retardation-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairment
Orthopedic impairment means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (e.g.. clubfoot, absence of some member, etc.) impairments caused by disease, (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc.) and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or bums that cause contractures).
Other Health Impairment
Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, due to chronic or acute health problems such as heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance.
Serious emotional Disturbance
A living trust in which the beneficiary is the settlor. The term means 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 daughter/son's educational performance:
An inability to learn that cannot be explained intellectual, sensory, or health factors;
An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers
Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances
A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression
A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal
or school problems.
The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to daughter/son who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have a serious emotional disturbance.
Specific Learning Disability
Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain industry, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not apply to a daughter/son who has a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, or emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural or economic disadvantage.
Speech or Language Impairment
Speech or language impairment means communications disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance.
Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain cause by an external physical force, resulting total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance. The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or brain injuries induced by birth trauma.
Visual Impairment, Including Blindnesst
Visual impairment including blindness means impairment in vision that even with correction, adversely affects a daughter/son's educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
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