Disability categories
Autism: A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and
nonverbal communication and social interaction.
2. Deaf-blindness: A combination of hearing and visual impairments that
causes severe communication and educational needs.
3. Deaf/Hard of Hearing: Deafness is a hearing loss that adversely affects a
child's ability to process linguistic information through hearing, with or without
amplification. Hard of hearing means that a child has a mild to moderate
hearing loss but can still process linguistic information through hearing with or
without amplification.
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Emotional Disturbance: A condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time (usually 6 months or more) and to a
marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
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An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual,
sensory, or health factors.
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An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal
relationships with peers and teachers.
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Inappropriate types of behaviour or feelings under normal
circumstances.
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A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
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A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated
with personal or school problems.
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Intellectual Disability: Significantly sub-average general intellectual functioning (low
IG), existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behaviour and manifested during
the developmental period.
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Multiple Disabilities: Concomitant/ co-existing impairments (such as intellectual
disability-blindness) that cause severe educational needs that cannot be
accommodated by special education programmes designed for only one of the
impairments.
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Orthopaedic Impairment: A severe orthopaedic physical impairment that adversely
affects a child's educational performance.
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Other Health Impairment (OHI): Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to
chronic or acute health problems, including asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart
condition, haemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and
sickle cell anemia.
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent patterns of inattention,
hyperactivity, and impulsivity that can affect daily functioning.
10. Specific Learning Disability (SLD): A disorder in one or more of the basic
psychological processes involved in understanding or using language, which may
manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do
mathematical calculations. This includes conditions such as dyslexia, dysgraphia,
and dyscalculia.
11. Speech or Language Impairment: A communication disorder such as stuttering,
impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment.
12. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): 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.
13. Visual Impairment (including blindness): An impairment in vision that, even with
correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance.