Workforce Challenges & DDS Waiver Services Analysis
Intellectual or Developmental Disability Definitions (5 of 5)
Intellectual or Developmental
Disability Definition
Adaptive Deficit: Conceptual
Adaptive Deficit: Social
Adaptive Deficit: Practical
South Dakota
(1) The individual has a severe, chronic disability attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, head injury, brain disease, autism, or
another condition which is closely related to intellectual disability and requires treatment or services similar to those required for individuals with
intellectual disabilities. To be closely related to intellectual disability, a condition must cause impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive
behavior similar to that of intellectual disability;
(2) The disability manifested itself before the individual reached the age of 22; and
(3) The disability is likely to continue indefinitely.
An individual is in need of ICF/IID services if the Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP) completed under § 67:54:03:05 shows that the
individual has a substantial functional limitation in three or more of the following functional areas:
(2) Receptive and expressive language -- communication involving verbal and nonverbal behavior that enables a person to understand others and to
express ideas and information to others;
(3) Learning/general cognitive competence -- the ability to acquire new behaviors, perceptions, and information and to apply the experiences to new
situations;
(5) Self-direction -- the management of one's social and personal life; the ability to make decisions affecting and protecting one's self-interests;
(5) Self-direction -- the management of one's social and personal life; the ability to make decisions affecting and protecting one's self-interests;
(intentionally repeated, since this criteria may be applied in both conceptual and social)
(1) Self-care -- the daily activities enabling a person to meet basic life needs for food, hygiene, and appearance;
(4) Mobility -- the ability to use fine or gross motor skills to move from one place to another with or without mechanical aids;
(6) Capacity for independent living -- based on age, the ability to live without extraordinary assistance; and
(7) Economic self-sufficiency -- the maintenance of financial support.
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