Exceptional: A legal designation given to a student by an Identification, Placement and Review Committee. "Pupils who are exceptional are entitled to special education programs and services suited to those needs" (Special Education Information Handbook 1984, Ministry of Education, p.1). The only way to remove the exceptional designation is by an IPRC.

Exceptional pupil: a pupil whose behavioural, communicational, intellectual, physical or multiple exceptionalities are such that he is considered to need placement in a special education program.

A learning disorder characterized by specific behaviour problems over such a period of time, and to such a marked degree, and of such a nature, as to adversely affect educational performance and that may be accompanied by one or more of the following:
(a) Inability to build or maintain interpersonal relationships
(b) Excessive fears or anxieties
(c) Tendency to compulsive reaction
(d) The inability to learn which cannot be traced to intellectual, sensory, or other health factors, or any combination thereof
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