Idea

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Part "C"

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refers to children birth to 3

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Part "B"

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regulations affecting school age children

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Categories

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1) Autism
2) Deaf, Blind
3) Emotional disturbance
4) Hearing Impairment
5) Mental Retardation
6) Multiple disabilities
7) Orthopedic Impairment
8) Other Health Impairment
9) Specific Learning Disability
10) Speech or language impairment
11) Traumatic brain injury
12) Visual Impairment
13) Developmental Delay

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Specific Learning Disabilities

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a disorder in 1 or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written

may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations.

Such term includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.

Such term does not include a learning problem that is primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural,
or economic disadvantage.

(a) Oral expression;
(b) Listening comprehension;
(c) Written expression;
(d) Basic reading skill;
(e) Reading fluency skills;
(f) Reading comprehension;
(g) Mathematics calculation; and
(h) Mathematics problem solving;

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Emotional Disability

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student must have a condition

student has 1 of 5 of the characteristics (inability to learn that cannot be explained, inability to build or maintain good interpersonal relationships, inappropriate types of behavior or feelings, general mood of unhappiness, tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with school

these characteristics must be to a marked degree with functional limitations

must be adversely affecting their education performance

Durations (for at least a year/pattern of severe beh. for short duration)

Behaviors across 2 different settings with one being school

student requires sped to receive FAPE

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Intellectual Disability

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means 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.

317 Mild Mental Retardation: IQ level 50-55 to approximately 70

318.0 Moderate Mental Retardation: IQ level 35-40 to 50-55

318.1 Severe Mental Retardation: IQ level 20-25 to 35-40

318.2 Profound Mental Retardation: IQ level below 20 or 25 319 Mental Retardation

Severity Unspecified: when there is strong presumption of Mental Retardation but the person's intelligence is untestable by standard tests

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Other Health Impairment

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

(a) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and

(b) adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

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Developmental Delay

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for children from birth to age three (under IDEA Part C) and children from ages three through nine (under IDEA Part B), the term developmental delay, as defined by each State, means a delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication; social or emotional development; or adaptive [behavioral] development