The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires students with disabilities to receive special education and/or related services.

To be considered a student with a disability under this law, your child must require special education and/or related services because of his or her disability in one or more of the following disability categories:

• Intellectual disability
• Hearing impairment
• Speech or language impairment
• Visual impairment
• Emotional disturbance
• Orthopedic impairment
• Autism
• Traumatic brain injury
• Other health impairment
• Specific learning disability
• Deafness
• Deaf-blindness
• Multiple disabilities
• Developmental Delay