Education Special Education K-12

Special Education Categories

What?
There are 13 categories for disabilities in MN. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) falls into category 9: Other Health Disabilities (OHD). The OHD category includes any child Does it matter what The 13 Categories for Disabilities & Special whose ability to learn and category my child receives Education in MN function at school is impaired 1. Autism Spectrum Disorders services under? as a result of a mild or Yes and No. Yes, because 2. Blind-Visually Impaired severe health condition. the special education 3. Deaf-Blind FASD is a brain disorder that 4. Deaf and Hard of Hearing category determines what manifests itself in behaviors, 5. Developmental Cognitive Disabilities (DCD) specific teacher or person which makes the OHD will be your child's case Mild-Moderate category the most manager. No, because the 6. Developmental Cognitive Disabilities (DCD) appropriate. Sometimes IEP and IP meet the unique Severe-Profound children with FASD are needs of your child. 7. Developmental Delay placed in the Emotional and 8. Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBD) Regardless of what is listed Behavioral Disabilities (EBD) 9. Other Health Disabilities as your child's primary category. This is not as disability, your child should 10. Physically Impaired appropriate as OHD because 11. Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) receive the appropriate EBD implies that FASD is services he/she needs in 12. Speech or Language Impairments behavioral only and willful on 13. Traumatic Brain Injury the least restrictive setting. the childs part. The OHD category allows children to be perceived more as having a health condition that Currently, my daughters is not willful. The Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and the Interagency Plan special education teacher is (IP) use the special education category on the data page of the document, an SLD licensed teacher which is typically the first page. Depending on the child, the IEP or IP lists either because her needs are a primary or both a primary and secondary category. Special education academic and not categories do not apply to children age birth-3, so they are not used in the behavioral. I suspect when interagency Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP). Developmental Delay is my son comes back to the frequently the category used until a child turns 7. At age 7, a more specific district, a DCD or EBD category is assigned. licensed teacher will be his

Where?
More information can be found on the MN Department of Education website.

case manager because of his behaviors. -Charolette, parent