State General Funded Services: Definition of Eligible Individuals

For purposes of eligibility for support and services:

A "developmental disability" means a severe chronic disability of a person that:

(1) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment, including the result from trauma to the brain, or combination of mental and physical impairments;

(2) is manifested before the person reaches the age of twenty-two years;

(3) is expected to continue indefinitely;

(4) results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(a) self-care;
(b) receptive and expressive language;
(c) learning;
(d) mobility;
(e) self-direction;
(f) capacity for independent living; and
(g) economic self-sufficiency; and

(5) reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary or generic care treatment or other support and services that are of life-long or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.





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