To be considered a "child with a disability" under IDEA, a student must have one or more of the following disabilities which must adversely affect the student’s educational performance:
• intellectual disability
• hearing impairments (including deafness)
• speech or language impairments
• visual impairments (including blindness)
• serious emotional disturbance
• orthopedic impairments
• autism
• traumatic brain injury
• health impairments (including ADHD, epilepsy, a heart condition)
• specific learning disabilities