A wide variety of Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services are available here at Alamogordo Public Schools. We strive to meet the needs of each and every student in order to provide them with an equal-opportunity academic experience.
Autism
Defined to be a range of pervasive developmental disorders that adversely affects a student's functioning and results in the need for specially designed instruction and related services.
Deaf Blindness
Deaf-blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness.
Developmental Delay (DD)
Developmental delay means a child who is experiencing developmental delays, as defined by the State and as measured by appropriate diagnostic instruments and procedures, in one or more of the following areas: physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive development; and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services.
Emotional Disturbance (ED)
Emotional disturbance means a condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Hearing Impairment/Deafness
Deafness means a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification that adversely affects a child’s educational performance.
Intellectual Disability (ID)
An intellectual disability is defined as significantly below average general intellectual and adaptive functioning manifested during the developmental period, with significant delays in academic skills. Developmental period refers to birth to eighteen (18) years of age.
Multiple Disabilities (MD)
Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability and blindness or intellectual disability and orthopedic impairment), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments.
Orthopedic Impairment (OI)
Orthopedic impairment means a severe skeletal, muscular, or neuromuscular impairment. The term includes impairments resulting from congenital anomalies (e.g. including but not limited to skeletal deformity or spina bifida), and impairments resulting from other causes (e.g., including but not limited to cerebral palsy or amputations).
Other Health Impairment (OHI)
Other health impairment means having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limitedalertness with respect to the educational environment, that is due to chronic or acute health problems.
Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)
A specific learning disability is defined as a disorder in one or more of the basic learning processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest in significant difficulties affecting the ability to listen, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematics.
Speech and Language Impairments
Speech Impairments are disorders impacting the way that a student communicates based on deficits in one or more of the following areas: Speech Sound Impairment, Fluency, and Voice. Language Impairments are disorders in one or more of the five areas of language, including phonology, semantics, syntax, morphology, and pragmatics.
Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects educational performance.
Visual Impairment(VI)
Students who are visually impaired include students who are blind, have no vision, or have little potential for using vision or students who have low vision.
