2. Cognitive Impairment (CI)
• IQ of 70 or lower
• Common terms
– Cognitive impairment
– Mental retardation
– Developmental disabilities
– Intellectual disabilities
• Difficult time doing
adaptive skills.
– Showering, eating,
brushing teeth, getting
dressed, and other daily
things.
3. Emotional Impairment (EI)
• Disruptive or inappropriate behaviors that
may affect a child's learning, social life, and
even personal life.
• Random outbursts
• Inner and outer types of behavior
– Examples:
• Anxiety disorder, mood disorder, schizophrenia, and
many more.
4. Hearing Impairment (HI)
• Controversies
– Where child should be
educated
– Learning sign language
– Should child receive cochlear
implant?
• Deaf
• Hard of hearing
• Prelingually deaf
• Postlingually deaf
5. Visual Impairment (VI)
• Visual efficiency
– How well sight is used
• Visual acuity
– Distance
• Residual vision
– Functional use
6. Physical Impairment (PI)
• Cerebral palsy
– Brain can not control functions
– Four types
• Spastic-70-80% of cases
• Athetoid
• Ataxic
• mixed
• Muscular Dystrophy
– Wasting away of the muscle/ muscle weakness
• Spina Bifida
– Spinal cord is not formed correctly
• Orthopedic impairment
– Affects child's educational performance
7. Other Health Impairment (OHI)
• Due to health problems, either big or small.
• Affects child's learning ability mostly to be
able to pay attention in class.
• ADHD/ADD is the most common
• Asthma
• Allergies
8. Speech and Language Impairment (SLI)
• Language
– Form
– Content
– use
• Speech
– Voice
– Articulation
– Fluency
9. Early Childhood Development Delay
(ECDD)
• A child with a disability related to learning
that does not take place because of visual or
hearing problems.
– Basic reading
– Basic math
– Comprehension
11. Severe Multiple Impairment (SXI)
• Impairments that are so sever that children
can not learn using the special learning tools.
• Child can not be placed in a “normal” class
room.
• The severity is determined by testing the
child.
12. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• A developmental disorder.
• Typically appears within the first three years of life.
• Affects brain social skills
• Characteristics
– Communication
– Social interaction
– Behavior
– Sensory and motor skills
• Types of autism
– Autistic disorder
– Asperger's disorder
– Pervasive development disorder
– Rhett's Disorder
– Childhood disintegrative disorder
13. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
• An injury to the brain
not caused by birth.
Greatly affects the
childs performance at
school
• Two types
– Closed head injury
– Open head injury
14. Deaf-Blind (DB)
Use special instruments in the
classroom to help their learning.
examples:
Close circuit TVs, talking
books, Braille, personal
readers..Etc.
