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Developmental Disabilities

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A developmental disability affects what your mind or body does. It occurs before age 22 and usually lasts a life time. You may need help with language and learning. You may also need help with moving around and taking care of yourself. Michigan's Mental Health Code has a formal definition - MCL (Michigan Compiled Laws) 330.1100a (21)

Developmental Disability means either of the following:

  1. If applied to an individual older than five years, a severe, chronic condition that meets all of the following requirements:

    • Is attributed to mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments.

    • Is manifested before the individual is 22 years old.

    • Is likely to continue indefinitely.

    • Reflects the individual's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or other services that are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.

    • Results in substantial functional limitation in three or more of the following areas of major life activities: Self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, mobility, self-direction, capacity for independent living, economic self-sufficiency.

  2. If applied to a minor from birth to age five, a substantial developmental delay or a specific congenital or acquired condition with a high probability of resulting in developmental disability as defined above.

Common disabilities that may fall under this definition include mental retardation, cerebral palsy, and autism. However, many other disabilities fall under the definition if the above criteria are met.

The Social Model Definition of Disability
  • The loss or limitation of opportunities for persons with physical, sensory or intellectual impairments to partake in the ordinary life or the community on an equal level with others is due to physical, structural and social barriers. (PDF) (PPT)
History of Developmental Disabilities

Parallels in Time (Minnesota DD Council)

 

 

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