Transcript I.D.E.A (2004) - Murray State University

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004)
There are 14 Specific Primary
Terms that define
“Child with a disability”
 For the purpose of Free Appropriate Education
 Child’s Educational Performance must be “adversely”
affected due to disability.
List
1. Autism,
2. Deaf-blindness,
3. Deafness,
4. Developmental Delay, defined by States
 means a delay in one or more of the following areas:
physical development; cognitive development;
communication; social or emotional development; or
adaptive [behavioral] development
5. Emotional Disturbance
means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics
over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects
a child’s educational performance:
(a) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual,
sensory, or health factors.
(b) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal
relationships with peers and teachers.
(c) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal
circumstances.
(d) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
(e) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with
personal or school problems.
The term includes schizophrenia. The term does not apply to children
who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have an
emotional disturbance.
6. Hearing Impairment,
7. Mental Retardation,
8. Multiple Disabilities,
9. Orthopedic Impairment,
10. Other Health Impairment,
11. Specific Learning Disability, SLD
...means 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. The term includes such conditions as perceptual
disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia,
and developmental aphasia.
The term does NOT include learning problems that are primarily the
result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities; of mental retardation; of
emotional disturbance; or of environmental, cultural, or economic
disadvantage.
12. Speech or Language Impairment
Speech and language disorders refer to problems in
communication and related areas such as oral-motor
function--sucking, swallowing, drinking, eating. These
delays and disorders range from simple sound
substitutions to the inability to understand or use
language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional
speech and feeding.
Some causes of speech and language disorders include
hearing loss, neurological disorders, brain injury,
intellectual disability, drug abuse, physical impairments
such as cleft lip or palate, and vocal abuse or misuse.
Frequently, however, the cause is unknown.
13. Traumatic Brain Injury,
means an ACQUIRED INJURY (open or closed head
injury causing impairments in one or more: cognition,
language, memory attention, reasoning, abstract
thinking, judgment, problem-solving, sensory,
perceptual, & motor abilities, psychosocial behavior,
physical functions, information processing, and
speech
14. Visual Impairment including blindness