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Exceptional Student Education (ESE) Special Needs Classification Codes

Code letters frequently describe disabilities. These codes will be displayed on bus schedules for drivers and
attendants and school district personnel/parents will also use them:

 Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD)
 Emotionally/Behaviorally
Disabled (EBD)
 Intellectually Disabled (IND)
 Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH)
 Dual Sensory-Impaired (DSI)
 Speech-Impaired (SI)
 Language-Impaired (LI)
 Specific Learning-Disabled
(SLD)
 Visually-Impaired (VI)
 Physically-Impaired (PI)
 Orthopedically Impaired (OI)
 Other Health Impaired (OHI)
 Trainable Mentally
Handicapped (TMH)
 Traumatic Brain-Injured (TBI)
 Developmentally Delayed
(DD)

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