Other Health Impairment

Other health impairment means 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:

1. is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficient hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, or heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, and sickle cell anemia; and
2. adversely affects a student’s educational performance.

Students with other health impairments may exhibit the following behaviors in a general education setting:

• tire easily
• perceptual problems
• chronic/acute health problems
• poor fine/gross motor skills
• physical limitations