Disability Classifications for IEP

Question 1

What are the 13 disability classifications for an IEP?

Answer 1

1. Intellectual disability
2. Emotional Disturbance
3. Traumatic Brain Injury
4. Other Health Impairment
5. Multiple Disabilities
6. Hearing Impairment
7. Speech or Language Impairment
8. Visual Impairment including blindness
9. Deafness
10. Deaf-Blindness
11. Orthopedic Impairment
12. Autism Spectrum Disorder
13. Specific Learning Disability

Question 2

Multiple Disabilities

Answer 2

Where there is a combination of multiple impairments causing severe enough educational difficulties that cannot be accommodated through targeting just one disability

Question 3

Intellectual Disability

Answer 3

A general intellectual functioning that is below average (2 standard deviations below the mean) with a cooccurring deficit in adaptive functioning and onset before the age of 18

Question 4

Specific Learning Disability

Answer 4

A disorder that affects one or more of the basic psychological processes that are involved with understanding or using language (spoken or written) which manifests through difficulties in the ability to listen, speak, think, read, write, spell, or do math calculations