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Disabilities: Depressive disorder and borderline intellectual functioning
Notice of Decision: Fully Favorable
Administrative Law Judge: Carolyn J. Van Duzer
Office of Disability Adjudication & Review (ODAR): Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida & Palm Beach County, Florida
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
After careful consideration of the entire record, I make the following findings:
1. The claimant was born on September 1, 1999. Therefore, she was a school-age child on May 17, 2006, the date the application was filed, and is currently a school-age child (20 CFR 416.926a(g)(2)).
2. The claimant bas not engaged in substantial gainful activity since May 17, 2006, the date the application for supplemental security income was filed (20 CFR 416.924(b) and 416.972).
3. The claimant has the following severe impairments: a depressive disorder and borderline intellectual functioning (20 CFR 416.924(c)).
The above impairments cause more than minimal functional limitations.
4. The claimant does not have an impairment or combination of impairments that meets or medically equals one of the listed impairments in 20 CFR Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1 (20 CFR 416.924,416.925 and 416.(26).
5. The claimant has an impairment or combination of impairments that functionally equals the listings (20 CFR 416.924(d) and 416.926a).
In determining the degree of limitation in each of the six functional domains, I have considered all symptoms in accordance with the requirements of 20 CFR 416.929 and SSR 96-7p. I have also considered the opinion evidence, consistent with 20 CFR 416.927 and SSRs 96-2p, 96-Sp, 96-6p and 06-3p.
The claimant's impairments cause:
In terms of the objective medical evidence of record, note that Ms. Johnnyce Bullard, the claimant's special education teacher, completed a Teachers' Questionnaire in August 2006, wherein she reported that the claimant had a serious problem attending and completing tasks and acquiring and using information (Exhibit 1F).
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