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Multiple Disabilities
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Multiple disabilities means concomitant impairments (such as intellectual disability-blindness, intellectual disability-orthopedic impairment, etc.), the combination of which causes such severe educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for one of the impairments. The term does not include deaf/blindness.
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Read about the specific criteria used to determine eligibility in the educational category of multiple disabilities.
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education – Criteria for Eligibility in the Educational Category of Multiple Disabilities
A student displays multiple disabilities when:
- Concomitant impairments occur, and
- The impairments together cause severe educational needs.
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Other local, state and national resources related to multiple disabilities
Local Resources
- Bridges Community Support Services
- Family Forward
- Life Bridge Partnership
- Paraquad
- Recreation Council of Greater St. Louis
- St. Louis Arc
- St. Louis Regional Office
- United Cerebral Palsy (UCP Heartland)
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National Resources