OSAT Mild-Moderate Disabilities || 100% Detailed Answers.
Autism correct answers A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and non-verbal
communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects
educational performance.
Deafness correct answers A hearing impairment which is so severe that a child is impaired in
processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, which
adversely affects educational performance.
Deaf-Blindness correct answers Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments, the combination
of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems
that a child cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with
deafness or children with blindness.
Hearing Impairment correct answers An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or
fluctuating, which adversely affects a child's educational performance but which is not included
under the definition of "deafness."
Intellectual Disability (formerly known as Mental Retardation) correct answers Significantly
sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive
behavior and manifested during the developmental period, which adversely affects a child's
educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities correct answers Simultaneous impairments (combination of two or more),
the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that the child cannot be
accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments, excluding
children with deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairment correct answers A severe impairment which adversely affects a child's
educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly (e.g.
clubfoot, absence of limb, etc.), impairments causes by disease (e.g. poliomyelitis, bone
, tuberculosis, etc.), and impairments from other causes (e.g. cerebral palsy, amputations, and
fractures or burns which causes contractures).
Other Health Impairment correct answers Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, due to
chronic or acute health problems, such as a heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever,
nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes,
which adversely affects a child's educational performance. Note: Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services clarified definition 09/16/1991 to include children with attention deficit
disorder (ADD/ADHD).
Serious Emotional Disturbance correct answers A condition exhibiting one or more of the
following characteristics over an extended period of time and to a marked degree, which
adversely affects educational performance:
a) an inability to learn which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors;
b) an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and
teachers;
c) inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances;
d) a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression;
e) a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school
problems.
The term includes children who have schizophrenia, but does not include children who are
socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have a serious emotional disturbance.
Specific Learning Disability correct answers A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may
manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do
mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions such as perceptual disabilities,
brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not
include children who have learning problems which are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or
motor disabilities, of intellectual disability (mental retardation), of emotional disturbance, or of
environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
Autism correct answers A developmental disability significantly affecting verbal and non-verbal
communication and social interaction, generally evident before age three, that adversely affects
educational performance.
Deafness correct answers A hearing impairment which is so severe that a child is impaired in
processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, which
adversely affects educational performance.
Deaf-Blindness correct answers Simultaneous hearing and visual impairments, the combination
of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems
that a child cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with
deafness or children with blindness.
Hearing Impairment correct answers An impairment in hearing, whether permanent or
fluctuating, which adversely affects a child's educational performance but which is not included
under the definition of "deafness."
Intellectual Disability (formerly known as Mental Retardation) correct answers Significantly
sub-average general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive
behavior and manifested during the developmental period, which adversely affects a child's
educational performance.
Multiple Disabilities correct answers Simultaneous impairments (combination of two or more),
the combination of which causes such severe educational problems that the child cannot be
accommodated in a special education program solely for one of the impairments, excluding
children with deaf-blindness.
Orthopedic Impairment correct answers A severe impairment which adversely affects a child's
educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by a congenital anomaly (e.g.
clubfoot, absence of limb, etc.), impairments causes by disease (e.g. poliomyelitis, bone
, tuberculosis, etc.), and impairments from other causes (e.g. cerebral palsy, amputations, and
fractures or burns which causes contractures).
Other Health Impairment correct answers Having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, due to
chronic or acute health problems, such as a heart condition, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever,
nephritis, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia, epilepsy, lead poisoning, leukemia, or diabetes,
which adversely affects a child's educational performance. Note: Office of Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services clarified definition 09/16/1991 to include children with attention deficit
disorder (ADD/ADHD).
Serious Emotional Disturbance correct answers A condition exhibiting one or more of the
following characteristics over an extended period of time and to a marked degree, which
adversely affects educational performance:
a) an inability to learn which cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors;
b) an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and
teachers;
c) inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances;
d) a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression;
e) a tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears associated with personal or school
problems.
The term includes children who have schizophrenia, but does not include children who are
socially maladjusted, unless it is determined that they have a serious emotional disturbance.
Specific Learning Disability correct answers A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which may
manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do
mathematical calculations. The term includes such conditions such as perceptual disabilities,
brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia. The term does not
include children who have learning problems which are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or
motor disabilities, of intellectual disability (mental retardation), of emotional disturbance, or of
environmental, cultural, or economic disadvantage.
