Lesson Four Activity Answer Key

 D Autism

 H Deaf-Blindness

 K Deafness

 A  Emotional Disturbance

 E  Hearing Impairment

 I  Mental Retardation

 L   Multiple Disabilities

 B   Orthopedic Impairiment

 F  Other Health Impairment

 J   Specific Learning Disability

 M  Speech or Language Impairment

 C   Traumatic Brain Injury

 G  Visual Impairment Including Blindness

A. An inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors. An inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances. A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression. A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school problems.

B. Clubfoot, absence of some member, piliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, cerebral palsy, amuputations and fractures or burns that cause contractures.

C. Caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment in one or more areas, such as cognition; language; memory; attention; reasoning; abstract thinking; judgment; problem-solving; sensory perceptual and motor abilities; psychosocial behavior; physical functions; information processing; and speech.

D. Developmental disability affecting verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction evident before age three. Engages in repetitive activities, resists changes in daily routines and responds unusually to sensory experiences.

E. A permanent or fluctuating impairment that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.

F. Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness; heightened alertness to environmental stimuli.

G. An impairment that can result in partial sight or blindness.

H. A simultaneous impairment causing severe communication and educational needs.

I. Sub-average general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period.

J. A disorder in understanding or in using language, spoken or written including perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia.

K. A severe impairment in processing auditory linguistic information.

L. Simultaneous impairments such as mental retardation-blindness or mental retardation-orthopedic impairment .

M. A communication disorder such as stuttering, impaired articulation, a language impairment, or a voice impairment