Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part IX - Developmental Disabilities Services › Chapter 3 - Infant Intervention Services › Section IX-305 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Case Management
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(4), a department
				  mechanism for linking, coordinating, and developing segments of a Mental
				  Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Services System to insure
				  appropriate residential living options or mental retardation and developmental
				  disabilities services or both to meet a recipient's needs to the greatest
				  extent possible, including those recipients who are served by multiple agencies
				  or regional service center. Such case management services shall be conducted in
				  accordance with established department procedures.
Center-Based Program
-a therapies and
				  habilitation program conducted in an out-of-home setting at a school, center or
				  clinic.
Criterion-Referenced Assessment
-a checklist
				  of behaviors which can be directly measured, are reduced into incremental
				  behavioral components, and include motor, communication, self-care, social and
				  cognitive skills.
DHHR
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(9), Department of
				  Health and Human Resources.
Diagnosable Condition
-a state of health
				  such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation, seizure disorder, autism, or a
				  congenital disease or abnormality which is identified by a physician.
Evaluation
-pursuant to LSDE Bulletin 1508,
				  a systematic process of review, examination, and interpretation of intervention
				  efforts, tests results, interviews, observations and other assessment
				  information relative to predetermined criteria.
Generic Service Plan
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(24), a plan developed
				  by a case manager, multidisciplinary evaluation team coordinator, and the
				  individual following receipt of the recommendations of a multidisciplinary
				  evaluation report enumerating those mental retardation and developmental
				  disabilities services or residential living options or both that a mentally
				  retarded or developmentally disabled individual is eligible for and should
				  receive, if available.
Handicapped Infant
-pursuant to LSDE
				  Bulletin 1508, one who is from birth to three years of age and has a serious
				  handicapping condition which, without intervention, will become progressively
				  more difficult for intervention at school age.
Home Training Program
-a parent training
				  program designed to teach the parents the skills necessary to provide therapies
				  and habilitation to their handicapped infant at home. The training can take
				  place in the home or at a school or center.
IHP
-individualized habilitation plan. This
				  is a written plan developed by the Infant Intervention Program after the infant
				  is admitted to the program. Such a plan shall include goals, objectives,
				  anticipated duration of services and other requirements as specified in
				  Section
				  317 of these standards.
Individualized Training
-a specific program
				  based on assessment of an infant's needs for therapies and habilitation
				  services in accordance with the IHP.
Infant Intervention Program
-therapies and
				  habilitation services program for handicapped infants which:
1. provides individualized training in a center-based
				  setting;
2. provides individualized training in a home training
				  setting; and
3. provides parent training to the parents.
Infant Intervention Services
-pursuant to R.
				  S. 28:381(8), services for handicapped infants from birth to three years
				  provided either through a center-based or home training program including, but
				  not limited to language stimulation and development, motor development,
				  socialization and self-help skills development, cognitive development, behavior
				  management, parent training and other services as appropriate to individual
				  needs.
Infant Interventionist
-an individual
				  certified by the LSDE to teach or train in such areas as handicapped infant,
				  noncategorical preschool handicapped, mental retardation, orthopedically
				  handicapped, severe-profound, elementary education; or a nurse, speech
				  therapist, physical therapist, or occupational therapist licensed in Louisiana
				  and certified by LSDE to work in an educational setting; or a related field,
				  who is enrolled in an approved professional plan for certification.
Infant Specialist
-an employee of the
				  Regional Service Center assigned to coordinate the Infant Intervention Services
				  in that region.
Integrated Evaluation Report
-pursuant to
				  LSDE Bulletin 1508, the final written report following the evaluation
				  which:
1. shall be a compilation of the data gathered during the
				  individual evaluation;
2. shall be integrated and written in language that is clear
				  to the individuals who will use it; and
3. shall contain all items pursuant to LSDE Bulletin 1508,
				  Section III.
I. 1-3.
LSDE
-Louisiana State Department of
				  Education.
LEA
-local education agency.
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
				  Services
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(22), programs and
				  assistance for mentally retarded or developmentally disabled persons which
				  include, but are not limited to, information and referral services, case
				  management services, diagnosis and evaluation services, generic service plan
				  development services, family support services, health services, educational
				  services, therapies and habilitation services, vocational services,
				  transportation services, recreation and leisure services, Special Olympics
				  services, respite services, infant intervention services, and adult day
				  services.
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
				  Services System
-pursuant to
				  R.S. 28:400,
				  the combination of private and public mental retardation and developmental
				  disabilities services and residential living options and the process by which a
				  mentally retarded or developmentally disabled individual is admitted,
				  transferred, or discharged within this system which is administered by the
				  Office through the regional service centers. Components are pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:401.
Multidisciplinary Evaluation
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(33), an assessment of
				  need for mental retardation and developmental disabilities services or
				  residential living options or both, and a determination that a person is
				  mentally retarded or developmentally disabled by a group of professionals
				  meeting together conducting their respective evaluations on an individual who
				  is mentally retarded or developmentally disabled or suspected of being mentally
				  retarded or developmentally disabled. The multidisciplinary evaluation process
				  shall be coordinated by an evaluation coordinator who shall be responsible for
				  developing an integrated evaluation report following a group meeting with those
				  professionals who conducted the multidisciplinary evaluation. Another purpose
				  of the multidisciplinary evaluation is to diagnose mental retardation or
				  developmental disabilities as defined herein.
OMR/DD
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(34), the Office of
				  Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities of DHHR.
Paraprofessional Training
-a person at least
				  18 years of age, who possesses a certificate of good health signed by a
				  physician, who has received paraprofessional training, and who assists in the
				  delivery of infant intervention services under the supervision of an infant
				  interventionist.
Paraprofessional Training Unit
-a training
				  model that may be used for the self-help skill training (toilet training,
				  dressing skills, grooming skills, feeding skills, and preacademic readiness
				  activities) of infant, preschool, or severely and profoundly handicapped
				  children. The unit, made up of not more than four paraprofessionals, must be
				  supervised directly by an infant interventionist. Each paraprofessional must
				  have a full quota of students (three) before an additional paraprofessional can
				  be added to the unit.
Parent Training
-teaching parents the skills
				  necessary to assist their handicapped infant in therapies and habilitation
				  services.
Regional Service Center
-pursuant to R. S.
				  28:381(38), an administrative unit of the Office of Mental
				  Retardation/Developmental Disabilities under its administration, supervision,
				  and control through which the office administers and coordinates the Mental
				  Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Services System in any given region.
				  The center is responsible for regional planning, stimulation of the development
				  of needed services from private or public providers; presentation of budget
				  information to the office for all residential living options and mental
				  retardation and developmental disabilities services or both in the region and,
				  as appropriate, request funding for such services through normal budgetary
				  channels; dispersal of appropriations made to the region through the office;
				  and administration of the state schools assigned to its geographic area. The
				  regional center shall utilize existing private and public resources to the
				  maximum extent possible. The relationship between a private provider and a
				  regional service center shall be defined by written agreement or contract as
				  specified in R. S. 28:380(C) to allow for maximum permissible fiscal and
				  administrative autonomy.
Screening
-pursuant to LSDE Bulletin 1508, a
				  process of collecting and reviewing information about the physical,
				  developmental, or behavioral characteristics of an infant for the purpose of
				  identifying those who are suspected of having a serious handicapping
				  condition.
Therapies and Habilitation
				  Services
-pursuant to
				  R.S.
				  28:381(46), behavioral
				  intervention, communication training, occupational therapy, physical therapy,
				  community living skills training, self-help skills training, socialization
				  skills training, infant intervention training, and other related therapies and
				  habilitation services.
Unit of Service
-a minimum of three hours of
				  planned activities a day in a center-based Infant Intervention Program, or one
				  hour of planned activities in a home training Infant Intervention
				  Program.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with R. S. 28:380 et
				  seq.