Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 2 - Public Health › Chapter 23 - Programs for Children with Disabilities › Article 3 - General Provisions › 7 AAC 23.900 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
As used in this chapter
(1) "department" means the Department of
				  Health and Social Services;
(2)
				  "general government contract" means the employment contract described in
				  7 AAC 78.320(7);
(3) "home-based service" means a program in
				  which a teacher visits the participant's home on a weekly basis, or as close to
				  weekly as is feasible, and provides an instructional plan for the parent to use
				  until the next visit;
(4)
				  "individualized education" means education provided to a child according to
				  that child's strengths and weaknesses without regard to the population as a
				  whole;
(5) "mild or moderate
				  developmental delay" means, for a child less than one year of age, a difference
				  between the developmental and chronological ages which is less than one-half of
				  the chronological age in two or more of the developmental areas tested, and for
				  a child over one year of age, a difference between the developmental and
				  chronological ages which is less than six months in two or more of the
				  developmental areas tested, or for a child of any age, a developmental delay of
				  any degree of severity that is limited to just one of the developmental areas
				  tested, regardless of its magnitude;
(6) "multidisciplinary evaluation" or
				  "multidisciplinary reevaluation" means an evaluation or reevaluation undertaken
				  by an infant-learning program teacher and two or more of the following
				  child-development oriented disciplines: pediatrics and other medical
				  specialties appropriate to the child's disability, psychology, physical
				  therapy, speech pathology, audiology, nursing, occupational therapy, and
				  special education;
(7) "organized
				  parental group" means a nonprofit corporation organized by or on behalf of
				  parents of exceptional children;
(8) "participant" means a child who receives
				  services from a grantee under a program described in
				  7 AAC 23.090;
(9) "regional resource center" means an
				  entity established under
				  AS
				  14.12.150;
(10) "section of family health" means the
				  organizational unit within the department that administers the infant learning
				  program;
(11) "severe or profound
				  developmental delay" means, for a child less than one year of age, a difference
				  between the developmental and chronological ages which is more than one-half of
				  the chronological age in two or more of the developmental areas tested, and for
				  a child over one year of age, a difference between the developmental and
				  chronological ages greater than six months in two or more of the developmental
				  areas tested;
(12) "acute" means
				  having a rapid onset, a short course, and pronounced symptoms;
(13) "case-responsible physician" means a
				  physician that provides a substantial, direct service to a child with a
				  disability, and does not include a physician that merely consults or evaluates
				  the child;
(14) "casualty loss"
				  means the uninsured loss of realty or tangible personal property by theft,
				  fire, flood, automobile accident, or similar unforeseeable and unusual
				  cause;
(15) "director" means the
				  director of the division of public health within the department;
(16) "exhaustion" of alternate resources
				  means a good faith effort to secure the benefit of those resources, including
				  applying for the resources if one appears to be eligible for them and
(A) accepting all benefits for which one is
				  qualified; or
(B) having one's
				  application for the resources denied, and filing any appeals for which one has
				  reasonable grounds;