If your SELPA or district wants to get a count of all students that are low incidence, you can run queries in SIRAS.

 

• Click on Search
• Predefined Queries
• Other Queries
• Low Incidence (All)
• Search to List

 

But for official counts, this information is better reported on from official CALPADS data.

 

Download a certified 16.14 .csv report from CALPADS, get the one from the time frame that is most appropriate.

 

Open the 16.14 report in Excel.

 

Add a column into the Excel document and give the header 'Low Incidence'

 

Then we do two filter/update passes.

 

First filter on only low incidence primary disabilities.

Put Y in the column for all those found records.

 

Second filter on only low incidence secondary disabilities.

Put Y in the column for all those found records.

 

Now you can thirdly filter or pivot on the 'Low Incidence' column for those Y values to get an accurate count of how many students have a low incidence disability without double counting any students that may have both eligibility as low incidence.

 

CDE Low Incidence Specialized Services

 

Code Disability Category

 

220 Hard of Hearing (HH):
Hard of Hearing means hearing impairment, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child's educational performance,but that is not included under the definition of "deaf" in this section.

 

230 Deafness (DEAF):
Deafness means a hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in
processing linguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification,
which adversely affects educational performance.
Hearing Impairment (HI):
Hearing Impairment is a federal category of disability, which includes both hard of hearing and deaf individuals as defined above. (34 CFR §300.7(c)(3))250

 

250 Visual Impairment (VI):
Visually Impaired, including blindness, means impairment in vision that, even with correction, adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes both partially seeing and blind children. (34 CFR §300.7(c)(13))

 

270 Orthopedic Impairment (OI):
Orthopedic Impairment means a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child's educational performance. The term includes impairments caused by congenital anomaly (e.g., clubfoot, absence of some member, etc.); impairments caused by disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, bone tuberculosis, etc.); and impairments from other causes (e.g., cerebral palsy, amputations, and fractures or burns which cause contractures)7-4

 

300 Deaf-Blindness (DB):
Deaf-Blindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they cannot be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness. (34 CFR§300.7(c)(2))