Physical Disabilities
Definition: A child with a physical disability shall have a sustained illness or disabling physical condition which prevents the child from receiving reasonable educational benefit from general education. A sustained illness means a prolonged, abnormal physical condition requiring continued monitoring characterized by limited strength, vitality, or alertness due to chronic or acute health problems and a disabling condition means a severe physical impairment. Conditions such as, but not limited to, traumatic brain injury, autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and cerebral palsy may qualify as a physical disability, if they prevent a child from receiving reasonable educational benefit from general education.
Criteria: In order to accommodate the effects of the illness so as to reasonably benefit from the education program, the student's chronic health problem or sustained illness may require some or all of the following:
- continual monitoring
- intervention
- specialized programming
AND/OR the student's disabling condition interferes with one or more of the following:
- ambulation
- attention
- communication
- coordination
- hand movements
- other activities of daily living
- self-help skills
to such a degree that it requires one or more of the following:
- special services
- equipment
- transportation
Related Links
- Adapted Physical Education (APE)
- Autism
- Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Physical Therapy (PT)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
For more information, please contact:
Cindy Millikin (Interim)
Phone: (303) 866-6619