Multiple Disabilities

"Multiple disabilities" means simultaneous impairments (such as intellectual disability with blindness, intellectual disability with orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf-blindness.

Common Characteristics

• • • Based on the individual disabilities that make up the category

    • May include severe levels of multiple disabilities

Criteria

• • • Combination of impairments prevents the child from being served in a program solely for one of the impairments

Outside Resources

• Virginia Commonwealth University’s Partnership for People with Disabilities

• TTAC Online