§ 16191 Special Education Definitions

• •“Exceptional children” includes kids with physical handicaps.
• •It also covers kids with intellectual disabilities, learning problems, or many disabilities at once.
• •Kids who go to special development centers for the handicapped are also included.
• •The definition is used for anything that follows in this article.

A kid who uses a wheelchair and goes to a special school for disabled students.

Because the child has a physical handicap and is in a development center, the law counts that child as an “exceptional child.”