The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) has defined a specific learning disability as those disorders into one or more than one of the below-mentioned conditions:

1. WHAT IS DISABILITY IN
SPECIAL EDUCATION?
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2. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
(IDEA) has defined a specific learning disability as
those disorders into one or more than one of the
below-mentioned conditions:
SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

3.  Mental Retardation
 Serious Emotional Disturbance
 Orthopaedic Impairment
 Autism
Traumatic Brain Injury
SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY
 Specific Learning Disability
 Hearing Impairment
 Speech Or Language Impairment
Visual Impairment
 Other Health Impairments

4. For children who have learning disabilities and
attention issues in special education, here are
some of the most relevant conditions.

5. The term specific learning disability covers a distinct group of learning
issues. Conditions in this group can affect a kid’s ability to write, listen,
speak, do math, or read. And some of the problems which can fall in this
group are:
SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY (SLD)
 Dyslexia
 Dysgraphia
 Dyscalculia
Auditory processing disorder
 Nonverbal learning disability

6. It is a developmental disorder which covers a wide variety of skills and
symptoms, but it mainly affects a child’s communication and social skills. Also,
this can impact their behaviour.
AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD)

7. Emotional disturbance means when a
child has numerous mental disorders like
schizophrenia, anxiety disorder,
depression, obsessive-compulsive
disorder, and bipolar disorder.
EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE

8. This term covers the
communication problems has
several issues like impaired
articulation, a language
impairment or voice impairment
or stuttering.
SPEECH OR LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

9. Children who have a diagnosis of
deafness have an extreme hearing
impairment, which means that
they aren’t able to get the
language by hearing.
DEAFNESS

10. Children having vision
problems are counted to have a
visual blindness problem, and it
includes both partial blindness
and sight.
BLINDNESS

11. Those children who have this
sort of disability have below-
average intellectual abilities,
including reduced social and
communication skills. One
example of mental capacity is
down syndrome.
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

12. If your child has ever met with an accident or
has any physical force problem, then they must
be a victim of traumatic brain injury.
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

13. If a child has many disabilities, it means that they are facing
more than one problem. And it creates the educational needs
which cannot meet in a program for this condition.
MULTIPLE DISABILITIES

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