Categories of Disability Under IDEA

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