This website is designed for the purposes of an assignment, for the class, Individual Needs and Diversity. It is taught by Jennifer Laffier, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology for the Faculty of Education.

The reference guide consists of 12 exceptionalities that explore the disorders that students in a classroom may possess.  The exceptionalities are categorized by subtitles: Communication Exceptionalities, Behavioral Exceptionalities, Intellectual Exceptionalities, Physical Exceptionalities, Multiple Exceptionalities.

The following 12 exceptionalities have been covered in this assignment:

1. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Behavioural Exceptionality)
2. ADHD (Behavioural Exceptionality)
3. Social Phobia (Behavioural Exceptionality)
4. Panic Disorder (Behavioural Exceptionality)
5. Anorexia Nervosa (Behavioural Exceptionality)
6. Autism (Communication Exeptionality)
7. Stuttering (Communication Exeptionality)
8. MID (Intellectual Exceptionality)
9. Giftedness (Intellectual Exceptionality)
10. Cerebral Palsy (Physical Exceptionality)
11. Visual Impairment (Physical Exceptionality)
12. ESL with Low Socio-economic background (Multiple Exceptionality)