What are the multiple disabilities?
Some examples of multiple disabilities are:
Deafblind (Visual Impairment + Hearing Impairment) Visual Impairment + Hearing Impairment + Mental Retardation. Visual Impairment + Mental Retardation. Cerebral Palsy + Mental Retardation/ Hearing/ Speech/ Visual problems.
What are the characteristics of disability?
What are severe and multiple disabilities?
What causes severe and multiple disabilities?
Causes of Multiple Disabilities
- Chromosomal abnormalities.
- Premature birth.
- Difficulties after birth.
- Poor development of the brain or spinal cord.
- Infections.
- Genetic disorders.
- Injuries from accidents (1)
What disabilities fall under multiple disabilities?
The two groups overlap somewhat in definition. Multiple disabilities, depending upon the definition used, may or may not include mental retardation as one disability, while severe disabilities requires mental retardation but does not require an additional disability.
What are the most severe disabilities?
Some of the causes for multiple disabilities include lack of oxygen at birth, difficulties at birth, premature birth, chromosomal abnormalities, genetic disorders, infections, poor development of the brain or spinal cord and injuries from accidents.
How does multiple disabilities affect learning?
(7) Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness or intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.