Teaching students with exceptional learning needs is done across categories of disability in the state of Ohio.  Ohio recognizes all federal categories of disability to make students eligible for special education.  But students are taught by teacher prepared for different intensities of need for intervention. 

Students with mild to moderate need for educational intervention are taught by teachers licensed to intervene at that range of intensity.  Students with moderate to intensive need for educational intervention are taught by teachers trained to intervene at that range of intensity. 

These ranges of intesity are irrespective of disability category.  For example, a student with a learning disability might require only mild to moderate intervention.  If her disability were more extreme, however, necessitating assitive technology and augmentative communication, her intervention needs might be termed moderate to intensive, requiring a teacher trained to deliver those more intensive strategies of intervention.

At Ashland University students may choose to be trained in either of these intervention ranges.  Often a student will choose one licensure area as an undergraduate and add the other in a graduate program.