Get WI ELG-OHI-001 2009-2024

In order to meet the eligibility criteria for OHI, the student must have a health condition which limits strength, alertness, or vitality, and has an adverse affect on the child's educational performance.

Wisconsin special education eligibility categories or impairment areas are: autism, intellectual disabilities, emotional behavioral disabilities, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, significant developmental delay, speech/language impairments, specific learning disabilities, traumatic ...

A medical diagnosis is not a necessary, nor by itself a sufficient, criterion for establishing OHI eligibility. A school system may require a medical assessment, but if it does, the school, not the child's parents, must bear the costs of such an assessment.

Definition: Other Health Impaired (OHI) means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment due to a chronic or acute health problem, including but not limited to asthma, attention ...

Other health impairment is the major or overriding disability condition that best describes the person's impairment. Specific learning disability is the major or overriding disability condition that best describes the person's impairment.

Definition: Other Health Impaired (OHI) means having limited strength, vitality, or alertness, including a heightened alertness to environmental stimuli, that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment due to a chronic or acute health problem, including but not limited to asthma, attention ...

This covers the areas of autism, blind and visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing, deafblind, emotional behavioral disability, intellectual disability, orthopedic impairment, other health impairment, significant developmental delay, speech or language impairment, specific learning disability, and traumatic brain ...

There are students with medical issues in every eligibility category - not all health conditions fall within OHI. For example, a student with Down syndrome often has an impairment in the area of cognition and, thus, may be identified as having an intellectual disability.