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North Dakota Century Code Title 15.1. Elementary and Secondary Education § 15.1-32-01. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in this chapter:

1. “Major life activities” include learning, walking, talking, breathing, and caring for oneself.

2. “Related services” means transportation and developmental and corrective or supportive services required to assist a student with disabilities to benefit from special education.

3. “Special education” means instruction designed to meet the needs of a student with disabilities, transportation, and corrective and supporting services required to assist a student with disabilities in taking advantage of, or responding to, educational programs and opportunities.

4. “Student who is gifted” means an individual who is identified by qualified professionals as being capable of high performance and who needs educational programs and services beyond those normally provided in a regular education program.

5. a. “Student with a disability” means an individual who is at least three years of age but who has not reached the age of twenty-one before August first of the year in which the individual turns twenty-one and who requires special education and related services because of:

(1) An intellectual disability;

(2) Being deaf or hard of hearing;

(3) Deaf-blindness;

(4) A speech or language impairment;

(5) A visual impairment, including blindness;

(6) An emotional disability;

(7) An orthopedic impairment;

(8) Autism;

(9) A traumatic brain injury;

(10) An other health impairment; or

(11) A specific learning disability.

b. “Student with a disability” includes a student age eighteen through twenty-one who is incarcerated in an adult correctional facility and who, in the last educational placement prior to incarceration, was identified as being a student with a disability and did not have an individualized education program or was identified as being a student with a disability and had an individualized education program.

6. “Student with a significant medical condition” means a student with a physical or mental impairment, whether permanent or temporary, which substantially limits one or more major life activities and who is not entitled to special education and related services.

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