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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, 2013
The term "multiple disabilities" is general and broad. From the term, you cannot tell how many disabilities a child has; which disabilities are involved; or how severe each disability is. Many combinations of disabilities are possible. The different disabilities will also have a combined impact. That is why it is also important to ask:…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Definitions, Evaluation Methods, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Markowitz, Joy B.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
This value-added analysis of the short-term effects of early intervention on 489 preschool children found that children with language impairments or multiple disabilities made developmental gains beyond that predicted by maturation alone in several skill areas, whereas children with speech impairments benefited in the cognitive domain only.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Tasks, Disabilities, Early Intervention