PASRR - IV. Mental Retardation
- Specific Conditions. A person is considered to have developmental
disability if there exists
- a level of developmental disability (mild, moderate, severe, or profound)
described in the American Association on Mental Retardation’s Manual
on Classification in Mental Retardation (1983), or
- a severe, chronic disability that meets all
of the following conditions:
- It is attributable to
- cerebral palsy or epilepsy; or
- any other condition, other than mental illness, found to be closely
related to developmental disability because this condition results
in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior
similar to that of persons with developmental disability, and requires
treatment or services similar to those required for these persons;
and
- It is manifested before the person reaches age 22; and
- It is likely to
continue indefinitely; and
- It results in substantial functional limitations
in three or
- more of the following areas of major life activity:
- self-care,
- understanding and use of language,
- learning,
- mobility,
- self-direction,
- capacity for independent living.
- Specialized Services. Specialized
services are those which, when combined with services provided by the
NF or other service providers, result in a continuous active treatment
program, which includes aggressive, consistent implementation of a
program of specialized and generic training, treatment, health services
and related services, that is directed toward
- The acquisition of the behaviors
necessary for the client to function with as much self-determination and independence
as possible; and
- The prevention or deceleration of regression or loss of current optimal functional
status.
Initial Assessment flowchart
