§ 15.1-32-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 15.1-32-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 15.1: Elementary and Secondary Education
• Ch. 15.1-32: Special Education

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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.