Georgia Online IEP

For each category, the eligibility team should determine whether or not the listed factor is the primary reason the student appears to show the characteristics of that category.

AUTISM

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Emotional Disturbance

Sensory Impairment (DEAF/HH; DEAF BLIND; VI)

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency

EMOTIONAL/BEHAVIORAL DISORDER

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Writing
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• Behavioral or social deficits are not clearly linked to emotionally impaired functioning
• Intellectual disability
• Lack of adequate visual/hearing capability or motor impairment that impacts assessment results

INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (MILD, MODERATE, SEVERE, PROFOUND)

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Writing
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• Emotional Disturbances
• Behavioral or social deficits are not clearly linked to emotionally impaired functioning
• Intellectual disability
• Lack of adequate visual/hearing capability or motor impairment that impacts assessment results
• Lack of experience in age-appropriate activities

ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENT

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency

OTHER HEALTH IMPAIRMENT

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Writing
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• Emotional Disturbances
• Intellectual disability
• Lack of adequate visual/hearing capability or motor impairment that impacts assessment results

SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Emotional Disturbances
• Lack of adequate visual/hearing capability or motor impairment that impacts assessment results

SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Writing
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• Emotional Disturbances
• Intellectual disability
• Lack of adequate visual/hearing capability or motor impairment that impacts assessment results

SPEECH OR LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency; normal stages of second language acquisition
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• Anxiety disorders such as Selective Mutism, Tourette's Syndrome, or others. 
• Tongue Thrust without a speech sound impairment.  
• Speech sound errors are inconsistent, situational or developmental.
• Physical structures are the primary cause of the speech sound impairment. 
• Speech dysfluencies are reported only by one observer or in one setting. 
• Voice differences are a symptom of a medical condition that is not amenable to improvement with therapeutic intervention. 
• Regional dialectical and/or cultural differences
• Auditory processing disorder not accompanied by a language impairment

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

• Lack of instruction in Reading
• Lack of instruction in Writing
• Lack of instruction in Mathematics
• Limited English Proficiency
• Cultural Factors
• Environment or economic disadvantage
• Atypical Educational History
• A brain injury that is solely congenital or degenerative or induced by birth trauma, not complicated