Other Health Impairment

Other Health Impairment
We recently received a physician's statement from Marshfield Clinic.  They completed the Homebound Instruction form so one of our students can receive that form of instruction. Attached also was a DPI Eligibility Checklist for Other Health Impairment completed by the doctor. This was given to the parents and the school district.  It is not for one person to determine if a child meets the eligibility criteria for an Other Health Impairment.  An IEP team needs to make that decision. The IEP team decides not only if a student meets eligibility criteria, but also whether a student has a need for special education including specially designed instruction.

Other Health Impairment is sometimes considered as a "fall back" category.  If they don't qualify for a learning disability impairment, let's put them under OHI.  I saw that comment recently in an email from a general education teacher.  OHI is a separate impairment category just like LD, Autism, TBI, EBD, etc.  They need to qualify under that impairment and the student must have a need for special education services.  On this link is the OHI eligibility guide: http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/sped/ohi.html.