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Who is eligible for Special Education services?

A student, ages 3 through 22, having one or more of the following 13 federally-defined disabling conditions that adversely affect his or her educational performance, may be eligible to receive special education services.

  • Characteristics associated with autism
  • Deaf-blindness
  • Deafness
  • Emotional disturbance
  • Hearing impairment (Hard of hearing)
  • Intellectual disability
  • Multiple disabilities
  • Orthopedic impairment
  • Other health impairment
  • Specific learning disability
  • Speech or language impairment
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Visual impairment