Disability Categories

Fourteen disabilities have been identified under ECEA. NOTE: Some of these disabilities have sub-menus on the right to sort their information.

Those persons from three to twenty-one years of age who, by reason of one or more of the following conditions, are unable to receive reasonable benefit from general education.

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Email Brooke Carson or Email Rhonda Danner

Deaf-Blindness

Email Tanni Anthony or Email Gina Herrera

Developmental Delay

Email Marcia Blum

Hearing Impairment, Including Deafness

Email Shauna Moden

Infant/Toddler with a Disability

Email Melissa Taucher

Intellectual Disability

Email Gina Herrera

Multiple Disabilities

Email Gina Herrera

Orthopedic Impairment

Email Gina Herrera

Other Health Impaired (OHI)

Email Sarah Blumenthal

Serious Emotional Disability (SED)

Email Bill Brown

Specific Learning Disability (SLD)

Email Emily Ottinger

Speech or Language Impairment

Email Hannah Mackie

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Email Jody Dickerson

Visual Impairment, Including Blindness

Email Tanni Anthony

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Additional Educator Resources

Related Services

Other CDE/State Links:

Family, School and Community Resources and Support for supporting parents and children with disabilities
Medicaid Extended School Health (MESH) Program
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS):
- Colorado PBIS
SWAAAC: State Wide Assistive Technology, Augmentative Alternative Communication

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