What are minor, moderate, and major special needs?
This can cover a wide range of conditions. Most of them will be surgically correctable, or may be something that just takes a little extra understanding and some additional time. Examples of surgically correctable conditions would be things like a club foot, cleft lip and palate, or a correctable heart defect – like a murmur caused by a small hole. Some minor to moderate special needs are not correctable. Examples would be things like blindness in one eye, a disfiguring facial scar, a malformed and minimally useable hand, significant hearing loss, a malformed hip significantly impacting gait, etc. Moderate to major special needs would include conditions such as a missing limb, Downs Syndrome, albinism, major bilateral cleft lip and palate, or Hepatitis B. A more detailed discussion is available in our Special Needs Checklist.
