seriously emotionally disturbed, orthopedically impaired, other health impaired, deaf-blind, or
multihandicapped, or have specific learning disabilities, and who because of such impairments need
special education and related services.
a. Deaf. A hearing loss or deficit so severe that the child is impaired in processing
linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, to the extend that his or her
educational performance is adversely affected.
b. Deaf-blind. Concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which
causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems that they
cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for deaf or blind children.
c. Hard of Hearing. A hearing impairment, whether permanent of fluctuating, that
adversely affects a child's educational performance but that does not constitute deafness.
d. Mentally Retarded. Significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning,
existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental
period, that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
e. Multihandicapped. Concomitant impairments (such as mentally retarded-blind or
mentally retarded-orthopedically impaired), the combination of which causes such severe
educational problems that they cannot be accommodated in special educational programs solely for
one of the impairments.
f. Orthopedically Impaired. A severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a
child's educational performance. The term includes congenital impairments (such as clubfoot and
absence of some member), impairments caused by disease (such as poliomyelitis and bone
tuberculosis), and impairments from other causes (such as cerebral palsy, amputations, and
fractures or burns causing contractures).
g. Other Health Impaired. Limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or
acute health problems that adversely affect a child's educational performance, including heart
condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever, nephritis, asthma, sickle-cell anemia, hemophilia,
epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, diabetes, or autism.
h. Seriously Emotionally Disturbed. A condition that has been confirmed by clinical
evaluation and diagnosis and that, over a long period of time and to a marked degree,
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