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Listed below are the five disability categories identified by the law that the Case Study committee (CSC) will review during the evaluation process to determine if you child is eligible for special education in the DoDDS School.
Criterion A: Physical Impairment
Students whose educational performance is adversely affected by a physical impairment that requires environmental and/or academic modifications including, but not limited to, the following: visually impaired, hearing impaired, orthopedically impaired, and other health impaired. This category also includes the disabilities of autism and traumatic brain injury.
Criterion B: Emotional Impairment
An emotional condition that has been confirmed by clinical evaluation and diagnosis and that, over a long period of time and to a marked degree, adversely affects educational performance. This includes students who are schizophrenic, but does not include students who are socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they are seriously emotionally disturbed.
Criterion C: Communication Impairment
Students whose educational performance is adversely affected by a developmental or acquired communication disorder to include voice, fluency, articulation, receptive and/or expressive language.
Criterion D: Learning Impairment (This category includes two disabilities.)
Specific Learning Disability - A Disorder in a student's ability to effectively use one or more of the cognitive processes in the educational environment. The term does not apply to students who have learning problems that are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor disabilities, of the mental retardation r emotional disturbance or of environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Intellectual Disability - A significantly sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period that adversely affects a student's educational performance.
Criterion E: Developmental Delay
The category of developmental delay is specific only to children ages birth through age seven and refers to a condition which represents a significant delay in the process of development. The presence of a developmental delay is an indication that the developmental processes are significantly impacted and that, without special intervention, is likely that the educational performance will be affected when the child reaches school age. The IDEA is an important educational law that has been incorporated for overseas school in DoD Instruction 1342.12.
The DoD Instruction mandates that children who are eligible for special education services must: