Active Treatment: 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 individual to function with as much self determination and independence as possible.
Inclusive: Full and meaningful participation by people with disabilities (developmental challenges) in settings and activities with people who do not have disabilities. This includes the provision of services and supports necessary to engage in meaningful participation.
Community Alternatives Program for People with Mental Retardation/ Development Disabilities (CAP-MR/DD): A State and Federal funding source that pays for services and supports that allow people with developmental disabilities to stay in, or return to, their own communities instead of living in an institution. To be eligible for this Medicaid-waiver program, the person with the developmental disability must qualify for the level of care provided in an Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation (ICF-MR).
Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation (ICF-MR): Certified private group homes and state facilities that provide 24-hour personal care, habilitation, developmental and support services to people with developmental disabilities who may have intermittent, recurring needs for nursing skills but don’t require continuous skilled nursing care.
Mental Retardation: Mental retardation is characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills. This disability originates before age 18.
Developmental Disability: North Carolina General Statute 122C-3(12a) defines a disability as a severe, chronic disability which is attributable to cognitive or physical impairment or combination of cognitive and physical impairments; is manifested before the age of 22 (unless the disability is caused by traumatic head injury and is manifested after age 22); is likely to continue indefinitely; results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: (a) self-care, (b) understanding and expressive language, (c)learning, (d) mobility, (e)motivation, (f) the capacity for independent living, (g) economic self-sufficiency; reflects the person’s need for a combination or sequence of special or interdisciplinary services which are of a lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated; or when applied to children from birth to four years of age, may be evidenced as developmental delay.
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