Low Incidence Disabilities

Other Health Disabilities (OHD)

Other Health Disabilities (OHD) include a wide range of chronic or acute health conditions that can range from mild to severe. Students with OHD have limited strength, endurance, vitality, or alertness in the educational environment.

Severely Multiply Impaired (SMI)

Students with Severe Multiple Impairments (SMI) meet the criteria for two or more of six categorical areas: deaf or hard of hearing, physically impaired, developmental cognitive disability (severe/profound), visually impaired, emotional or behavioral disorders, and autism spectrum disorders.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Students with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) have had an injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability and/or psycho-social impairment that may adversely affect a student's performance and result in the need for special education and related services.

Schools

Students who require the highest level of services for their low-incidence disability learn in one of our federal setting IV schools. Currently, enrollment in these schools is limited to students from one of our 13 member districts.

Karner Blue Education Center (grades K-8)
Pankalo Education Center (grades K-8)
Quora Secondary School (grades 7-12+)

Services

We offer many services that support students with low-incidence disabilities, including:

Animal-assisted interaction
Itinerant and Related services:
- Behavior analysis services
- Mental health
- Nursing
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Speech/language pathology
- Physical/health disability specialist services

Northeast Metro 916 is one of four intermediate school districts in Minnesota, offering specialized and shared programming that includes career and technical education, special education services, area learning centers and care and treatment.

Northeast Metro Intermediate School District