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- Disability Categories
- Autism
- Deaf-Blindness
- Deafness
- Emotional Behavioral Disorder
- Hearing Impairment or Deafness
- Cognitively Disabled
- Multiple Disabilities
- Orthopedic Impairment
- Other Health Impairment
- Specific Learning Disability
- Speech and Language Disability or Impairment
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Visual Impairment and Blindness
Characteristics
Cognitive
- Inability to perform basic academic tasks
- Difficulty in performing functional life skills
- Difficulty with spoken language (nonverbal in some instances)
- Limited vocabulary
- Exhibits low frustration tolerance
- Difficulty in demonstrating age-appropriate behavior
- Exhibits problems in adjusting to change
- Exhibits self-stimulatory behaviors such as body rocking, an attraction to
- light and hyperactivity
- Exhibits inappropriate behaviors in touching and smelling objects and/or people
- Difficulty with environmental mobility
- Difficulty with vision
- Difficulty with hearing
- Difficulty with physical ambulation (motor problems/orthopedic problems/cerebral palsy)
- Displays seizure activity
- Difficulty with eating
- Difficulty with bowel and/or bladder control
- Difficulty in administering self-care