Eligibility Criteria for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disability Services

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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 re-determined 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.