Disability Category
Intellectual Disability (ID)
Hearing Impairment (HI)
Orthopedic Impairments
(OI)
Visual Impairments
Including Blindness (VI)
Deaf-Blindness
Deafness
Related Disorders Criteria of Eligibility
- Down Syndrome - Limitations in intellectual
- Fragile X Syndrome functioning
- Autism - Limitations in Adaptive
Behavior
- IQ <50
- Physical head injury - Slight to profound hearing
- Tinnitus loss
- Fluctuating hearing loss
- Ringing in the ears
- Neuromotor - An orthopedic impairment
impairments
- Cerebral palsy
- Blindness - Limitations in vision that
- Functionally Blind affect everyday life
- Total blindness
- Usher Syndrome - Hearing and visual
- Central Auditory impairments
Processing Disorder - communication problems
- Deafness - Hearing impairment that
- Down Syndrome cannot be helped with
amplification
Characteristics Prevalence Notes/Comments
- Limited social skills .8% - May coexist with ASD
- May need to learn life and communication
skills, self care disorders
- Conductive, 1% - There are many
sensorineural, mixed, different types of aids for
and central hearing hearing loss such as a
loss cochlear implant or
- Ringing of the ears hearing aids
- Limited limb mobility 1% - Students have no
intellectual impairments
- Functional to total .5% - Students have no
blindness intellectual impairments
- Sensitivity to light - Can be caused by many
different diseases
- Functional to total .5% - This is for students who
blindness cannot be helped solely
- Hearing loss by a program for just deaf
- Deafness or just blind students
- Total hearing loss .5% - Deaf awareness and
- Speech delays accommodations are
- Limitations on social being seen more in
skills educational setting
Traumatic Brain Injury - PTSD - Injury to the brain from an - Impairments in .5% - This does not include
(TBI) - OCD external force speech, vision, and cognitive or degenerative
- Personality changes communication skills brain injuries
- Seizures
- Behavioral symptoms

Autism Spectrum - Asperger’s - D​evelopmental disability - Lack of social skills 9% - There are many
Disorders (ASD) Syndrome significantly affecting verbal - Repetitive behaviors different kinds of
and nonverbal - Obsessions medications students
communication and social - Hyperactivity may be taking for these
interaction disorders

Multiple Disabilities (MD) - Intellectual - The student cannot receive - Limited cognitive 2% - Check if one disability is
disabilities accommodations from one skills more severe than the
- Hearing impairment category alone - Limited mobility others
- Orthopedic - Visual or auditory
impairments impairments
- Visual impairments - Limited speech and
- Deaf-blindness communication skills
- Deafness
- Traumatic brain
injury
- Autism spectrum
disorder