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Disability Categories
Fourteen disabilities have been identified under ECEA. NOTE: Some of these disabilities have sub-menus on the right to sort their information.
Those persons from three to twenty-one years of age who, by reason of one or more of the following conditions, are unable to receive reasonable benefit from general education.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Email Brooke Carson or Email Rhonda Danner
Deaf-blindness
Email Tanni Anthony or Email Gina Herrera
Developmental Delay
Hearing Impairment, Including Deafness
Infant/Toddler with a Disability
Intellectual Disability
Multiple Disabilities
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Additional Educator Resources
- Adapted Physical Education (APE)
- Behavior
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
- Instructional Accommodations
- Instructional Standards
- Literacy and Students with a Disability
- Mental Health
- Multilingual Learners
- Preschool Special Education / Child Find
- Secondary Transition
- Special Education Guidance Documents
- Special Education Teacher Preparation Partnerships
- Significant Support Needs (SSN)
- Technical Assistance Documents
Other CDE/State Links:
- ECEA Eligibility Categories Training
- Family, School and Community Resources and Support for supporting parents and children with disabilities
- Medicaid Extended School Health (MESH) Program
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS):
- SWAAAC: State Wide Assistive Technology, Augmentative Alternative Communication
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