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• ​Developmental Disability (DD) is a severe mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments
  
• Begins before an individual is 22 years of age or 18 years of age for an intellectual disability;
  
• Begins in and directly affects the brain and has continued, or is expected to continue, indefinitely;
  
• Causes significant impairment of daily living skills (adaptive behavior) such as, but not limited to, communicating, grooming, dressing, safety and social skills.

Other developmental disabilities include autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or other neurological disabling conditions.

• ​Intellectual Disability (ID) means significantly sub-average intellectual functioning with an intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 and under as measured by a qualified professional, along with a lack of daily living skills (adaptive behavior) such as, but not limited to, communicating, grooming, dressing, safety and social skills, that show up prior to 18 years of age.
  
• Individuals with IQs of 71-75 may be considered to have an intellectual disability if there is also significant impairment in adaptive behavior as diagnosed by a licensed clinical or school psychologist.

•  Learning Disability means a condition that interferes with development of academic skills.

•  Learning disability includes, but is not limited to, ataxia, communication disorder, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, language disorder, fluency disorder, non-verbal learning disorder, specific auditory or processing disorder, social pragmatic communication disorder, specific learning disorder, and speech sound disorder.