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Multiple Disabilities

Source: State: Missouri State Board of Education
Topics: Special Needs

Definition

Multiple Disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as mental retardationblindness, mental retardation-orthopedic impairment, etc.), 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.

Criteria

A child displays multiple disabilities when:

    A. Concomitant impairments occur.

  1. B. The impairments together cause severe educational needs.

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