Multiple disabilities mean concomitant impairments, such as intellectual disability-blindness or intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment, the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. “Multiple disabilities” does not include deaf-blindness. (Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.8(c)(7); Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3030(b)(7)) Orthopedic impairment means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly, impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns that cause contractures). (Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.8(c)(8); Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3030(b)(8)) Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment that: (A) Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome; and (B) Adversely affects a child’s educational performance. (Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.8(c)(9); Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3030(b)(9)(A)-(B)) Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may have manifested itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The basic psychological processes include attention, visual processing, auditory processing, phonological processing, sensory-motor skills, cognitive abilities including association, conceptualization and expression. (Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 300.8(c)(10)(i)-(ii); Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations § 3030(b)(10)(A)-(C)) Speech or language impairment A pupil has a language or speech disorder as defined in Education Code section 56333, and it is determined that the pupil's disorder meets one or more of the following criteria: (A) Articular disorder. (B) Abnormal Voice. A pupil has an abnormal voice which is characterized by persistent, defective voice quality, pitch, or loudness.
Chapter 3 – Eligibility Criteria, Desert/Mountain SELPA As of 9/17/2018 CAHELP Governance Council Review/Approval
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