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Other Health Impairment

Source: State: Missouri State Board of Education
Topics: Sick Kids, Child Medical Problems

Definition

Other Health Impairment means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment that is due to chronic or acute health problems, such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell anemia, and adversely affects a childs educational performance.

Criteria

A child displays a health impairment when:

    A. A health impairment has been diagnosed by a licensed physician, licensed
    psychologist, licensed professional counselor, or licensed clinical social worker;
  1.   B. The health impairment adversely affects the child's educational performance.
 

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