Eligibility Criteria for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability Services

Children birth through six:

• Documentation of at least three developmental delays, AND

• Reflects a need for multiple services, AND

• Does not include individuals who are solely severely emotionally disturbed or seriously and persistently mentally ill.

*All eligibility determinations made on children under the age of seven are temporary determinations. Eligibility will be redetermined around the age of seven or eight.

Ages seven and above:

Mental Retardation

• An Axis II diagnosis of mental retardation prior to the age of 18, AND

• At least two limitations in the following adaptive skill areas: Communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure, work.

Other Developmental Disability

• A condition which is evidenced by a severe, chronic developmental disability, AND

• Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments, AND

• Is manifest before the age of 22, AND

• Is likely to continue indefinitely, AND

• Results in substantial functional limitations in any three or more of the following areas of life functioning: Self-care, understanding and the use of language, learning and adapting, mobility, self-direction in setting goals and undertaking activities to accomplish those goals, living independently, economic self-sufficiency, AND

• Reflects a need for multiple services which are identified and managed by a separate person due to cognitive limitations, AND

• Does not include individuals who are solely severely emotionally disturbed or seriously and persistently mentally ill or have disabilities solely as a result of infirmities of aging.

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