What is meant by Physically Impaired with Other Health Impairment?
Other Health Impaired 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. This includes, but is not limited to, asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette syndrome, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and aquired brain injury. To be eligible of exceptional student education there must be evidence of a health impairment that results in reduced efficiency in schoolwork and adversely affects a student’s performance in the educational environment.
