Students with Disabilities: Special Education Categories

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Learn in detail about the 14 different categories and classification of special education students. The different categories are broken down in the following categories: Autism, Deaf-blindness, deafness, developmental delay, emotionally disturbed, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic disability, other-health impairment, traumatic brain injury, specific learning disability, speech language impairment, and visual impairments. Each of these fourteen different categories are clearly defined with the individuals with disabilities act, IDEA, in mind. The characteristics of students that have the following classifications are detailed for classroom teachers, parents of special education students, case managers, principals, advocates, general education teachers and more. The video also offers specific teaching strategies for each special education category. This video is part of a special education background knowledge playlist from Teachings in Education. The Teachings in Education channel is the complement to the Teachers Pay Teachers stores where resources for educators are sold.

[kingnate]

I had a speech and langauge impairment. I was put in the special ed class, but then when I was in 7th grade they gave me test to see if I really needed special ed. They realized that I didin't need it and put me in a intergrated co teaching class. Now I take general ed classes in highschool and i'm passing my classes.

[millacernemusic]

I have autism, mental illnesses and I’m completely blind. I want to stress the importance of braille in school. Nowadays blind people have assistive technology with a computer voice that reads the text aloud. It’s incredible and it’s actually what helps me type this comment on my phone. But there is a downside, students are using less and less braille. Braille is an important way of communication, and literasy is so incredibly important! Please, if you are a teacher and you have a blind student, learn a little bit of braille! It helps me so much when one teacher has learned the basic letter recognition.
My aunt has an intellectual disability. She has no understanding of numbers, but she recognizes shapes, including letters. She’s a visual learner, and I don’t understand why no one taught her to read. I think she would understand more of the world, if she could at least read the road signs. Again, literasy is important!

[soulevans]

it Has always been so difficult for me to learn a certain subject like math, my teachers noticed it when I was at the age of 9 and sent me to a different building where they tested me on different subjects. As English and writing was my highest grade; math was always my lowest. Due to the fact that I had a slow learning disability I was sent to the “special Ed classes” and have been there ever since. But since they noticed I was slow in one subject in middle school, they decided to take me out of regular Ed English, and science. I am a functioning 17 year old who is capable of doing certain tasks; and for those who tell us we shouldn’t be let out into the community shouldn’t have any right to judge us for who we are. Thank you for making this video :)

[Amanabouba]

00:25 Intellectual disabilities 1:10 deaf-blind 1:47 Specific Learning disabilities 3:12 Developmental Delay 3:58 other health impairment

[kylahubscher]

I am studying special needs education in college and so I really appreciate stuff like this! It makes me very excited to be able to help kids that struggle with these things.

[ciaratambongco]

Thanks!! Really helpful, I have a class "Psychology of Exceptional Children" and this helped me understand the classifications better.

[sarahk]

I have specific learning disability and it joke to people don't understand anything about it. Resource very limit for specific learning disabilty.

[sarahcrouse]

The autism spectrum isn't linear -- it's more like a circle of gradient colors, where the different "shades" represent different capabilities. Autistic people can be very good at some of these things, while not being able to handle others very well. I'm autistic and because I also happen to have a high IQ, I understand complex material, write essays very well, and am praised for my academic work. But I struggle to keep up with hygiene, housework, driving, and making phone calls. I also benefit from help getting started on a class assignment and/or deadline extensions due to executive functioning difficulties, but I was able to make it through most of my MA before I even got diagnosed and received accommodations. It's not as simple as "high" vs. "low" functioning. There are more factors to consider than that.

[shemiahwalker]

I have specific learning disability, and I love it .my major is reading, writing, and of course math

[melissadelarosa]

In what category would Down syndrome students be in?

[katiewilkinson]

This is very helpful I was in special education environment since I was in preschool I did graduate high school

[LaurenMca]

My iep classification is multiple disabilities but I have no physical problems. I wonder why it’s that.

[alextorres]

Special education should be exterminated from the school system and its teachers should face a maximum of 5 years in prison because what they are doing is horrible at this very moment

[nadinecommissions]

You are really great at explaining sir! As a pre service teacher, I admire and learned a lot from you. May the God Bless you.

[amynoggle]

This clip is engaging and includes a great deal of valid information. Thanks for this overview! I'm sharing with my college students. Please just note that DD includes children in the Birth to 3 year range as well. :)

[melvingil]

Welp I just found out I have emotional disturbed. I got to talk to my mom about this, I hope she believes me, because I have social anxiety and I can’t control my emotions

[thedadvocate]

Great video about the category of disabilities explained in layman’s terms.

Also, love the whiteboard feature. Will definitely be checking out that link.

‘Keep fighting the good fight’

[vellbariaofficial]

I have autism and learning disability and minor on developmental delay and I can firmly relate to this!

[swimdopey]

As a parent of a child with developmental delay and speech delay. He "aged out" of that diagnosis according to the school system. He still gets speech. He however is nowhere near grade level. He is now 11 and his neurologist diagnosed him with static encephalopathy. Yeah the schools don't know what to do with that one. They have kept him with an IEP but it is a constant battle to get him the help that he needs. On the speech side, his speech pathologist from the school is amazing.

[bluepieguy]

Finally the different categories of losers