Characteristics of Children with Multiple Disabilities

Students with multiple disabilities generally have specific characteristics related to their Intellectual Functioning, Adaptive Skills, Motor Development, Sensory Functioning, and Communications Skills. Most students with multiple disabilities have many impairments in intellectual functioning. Students vary widely in their academic abilities. Adaptive skills include conceptual, social, and practical competencies for functioning in typical community settings in an age-consistent way. Students with motor development impairments produce abnormal muscle tone and may have difficulty sitting and moving. Hearing and vision impairments are very common among children with multiple disabilities such as Deaf-blindness. A lot of students with multiple disabilities have communication impairments and have limited or no speech.

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