Question | Answer |
Learning Disabilities | Acquired trauma,brain injury, prenatal causes, strokes, concussions, meningitis, fever, genetic, biochemical, environmental |
Speech and Language | congenital, developmental, or acquired. Exposure to teratogens, xray, virus, drugs, environment |
Mental retardation | prenatal-(abnormalities, environmental, maternal), perinatal-(low birth weight, premature, trauma,seizures distress), postnatal-(infections and toxins, environmental brain damage) |
Emotional/Behavioral disorders | biological(injury, infection, lead poisoning, poor nutrition, exposure to toxins) or genetic, environmental-maltreatment, poverty, abuse |
ADHD | neurological dysfunction,herediary factors, environmental-(maternal smoking, alcohol abuse, lead poisoning, low birth weight, prematurity. |
Autism Spectrum Disorders | No single cause, genetic contributions along with abnormal brain chemistry and development suspected. Genetic contributions. |
Hearing impairments | Genetic, heredity,infections, developmental, environmental/traumatic |
visual impairments | congenital, genetic, or traumatic. Caused by disease, infection |
Physical and Health disabilities | Chromosomal, genetic, teratogenic, prematurity,birth complications, acquired causes(trauma, child abuse, infections, environmental toxins, and disease. |