Multiple Disabilities
Definition: A student with multiple disabilities shall have two or more areas of significant impairment, which shall be a cognitive impairment except in the case of deaf-blindness. Cognitive impairment shall mean significant limited intellectual capacity. The other areas of significant impairment include: physical, visual, auditory, communicative, or emotional. The combination of such impairments creates a unique condition that is evidenced through a multiplicity of needs which prevent the student from receiving reasonable educational benefit from general education.
Criteria: It is the same as that considered for each of the single disabilities and shall include documentation of:
- Significant limited intellectual capacity
AND at least one or more of the following
- Significant identifiable emotional disability
- hearing disability
- vision disability
- physical disability
- speech or language disability
AND/OR
- Deafblind
Related Links
- Deafblindness (combined vision and hearing loss)
- Hearing Disabilities
- Physical Disabilities
- Significant Identifiable Emotional Disability (SIED)
- Significant Limited Intellectual Capacity (SLIC)
- Significant Support Needs (SSN)
- Speech or Language Impairment
- Visual Disabilities
For more information about Significant Support Needs, contact:
Gina Quintana
Phone: (303) 866-6605