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Children with
General Characteristics
General characteristics for
children with Other Health
Impairments are: feeling
fatigue, mobility issues,
coordination difficulties,
limited strength (muscle
weakness), missing school
often, being tardy
frequently, stamina, and/or
the inability to focus for
long periods of time.
Based off the website Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) the federal definition of
Other Health Impairments (OHI) is:
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-(i) Is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder
or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition,
hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and
Tourette syndrome; and
(ii) Adversely affects a childs educational performance.
Although the a student may face these health issues in order for them to qualify as OHI eligible, the
childs health issue must effect their educational environment. If their health issue does not affect
their education environment, such as causing the child to have limited strength, energy, or
awareness, then the child does not qualify as OHI eligible.
Classroom Accommodations:
Common classroom accommodations for students with OHI are
having note takers for the student, in class voice recordings of
what was taught in class that day, flexible attendance, extended
time for tests, creating a classroom environment that lessens
fatigue and injury, technology to enhance the students learning,
and rest times throughout the day.
SUMMER 2016
Reference List:
Disability Rights Wisconsin. (2007, November 16). Health Impairments Accommodations within
School. Retrieved February 01, 2016, from http://www.disabilityrightswi.org/archives/66
Grice, K. (2002). Eligibility under IDEA for Other Health Impaired Children (1st ed., pp. 7-12).
Institute of Government. Retrieved from
http://sogpubs.unc.edu/electronicversions/slb/slbsum02/article2.pdf
Hallahan, D.P., Kauffman, J.M., & Pullen, P.C. (2015).
Exceptional Learners (13th ed). Upper Saddle River; NJ, Pearson, Chapter 14 (OHI).
IDEA Building The Legacy of IDEA 2004. (n.d.). Retrieved February 01, 2016, from
http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/,root,regs,300,A,300%2E8,
National Association of Special Education Teachers. (n.d.). NASET.org Home
Page. Retrieved February 01, 2016, from https://www.naset.org/2278.0.html
Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities. (2013). Health Impairments Project IDEAL.
Retrieved February 01, 2016, from http://www.projectidealonline.org/v/health-impairments/
University of Washington. (n.d.). Health Impairments. Retrieved February 01, 2016, from
http://www.washington.edu/doit/health-impairments