appropriation;
developmentally disabled; mentoring
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As Passed the House |
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HB 2381 appropriates a blank sum in FY 2001-02 from the state general fund to the Department of Economic Security (DES) for the Developmentally Disabled Mentoring Program (Program).
Arizona
Revised Statutes section 36-551, paragraph 17 defines the term developmental disability as either a strongly demonstrated potential
that a child under the age of six years is developmentally disabled or will
become developmentally disabled, as determined by a test performed pursuant to
section 36-694 or by other appropriate tests, or a severe, chronic disability
which:
(a) Is attributable to mental retardation,
cerebral palsy, epilepsy or autism.
(b) Is manifest before age eighteen.
(c) Is likely to continue indefinitely.
(d) Results in substantial functional
limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:
(i) Self-care.
(ii) Receptive and expressive language.
(iii) Learning.
(iv) Mobility.
(v) Self-direction.
(vi) Capacity for independent living.
(vii) Economic self-sufficiency.
(e) Reflects the need for a combination and
sequence of individually planned or coordinated special, interdisciplinary or
generic care, treatment or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration.
There are substantial similarities between the state and the federal
definition of developmental disability.
The most notable difference is that the state definition limits the
diagnosis attributable to only mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy or
autism, whereas the federal definition is attributed to a mental or physical
impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments before the age
of 22.
The latest Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities Annual Report to the federal government states that there are approximately 83,000 persons in Arizona deemed to be developmentally disabled per the state definition.