Categories of Disability Under IDEA

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Across
  1. 3. are provided through the state to infants and toddlers with disabilities under three years of age and their families.
  2. 4. the term does not apply to children who are socially maladjusted unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance.
  3. 5. A ___ may also not be identified as having a disability just because he or she has not had enough appropriate instruction in math or reading.
  4. 6. an impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance and it includes both partial sight and blindness.
  5. 8. is not included under the definition of “deafness.”.
  6. 9. an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force.
  7. 10. an inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
  8. 11. 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 the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.
  9. 12. a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
  10. 14. a developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction.
  11. 15. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
  12. 17. local educational agencies
  13. 18. hearing and visual impairments.
  14. 19. it appears in most of the disability definitions.
  15. 20. IDEA lists ____ different disability categories under which 3- through 21-year-olds may be eligible for services.
Down
  1. 1. simultaneous impairments and does not include deaf-blindness.
  2. 2. a delay in one or more of the following areas: physical development; cognitive development; communication; social or emotional development; or adaptive development.
  3. 7. a communication disorder
  4. 13. means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning.
  5. 16. a hearing impairment so severe that a child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing.