68-1503. Terms, defined.

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For purposes of the Disabled Persons and Family Support Act:

(1)Department means the Department of Health and Human Services;

(2)Disabled family member or disabled person means a person who has a medically determinable severe, chronic disability which:

(a)Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;

(b)Is likely to continue indefinitely;

(c)Results in substantial functional limitations in two or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(i)Self-care,

(ii)receptive and expressive language,

(iii)learning,

(iv)mobility,

(v)self-direction,

(vi)capacity for independent living,

(vii)work skills or work tolerance, and

(viii)economic sufficiency; and

(d)Reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, vocational rehabilitation, or other services which are of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated; and

(3)Other support programs means all forms of local, state, or federal assistance, grants-in-aid, educational programs, or support provided by public or private funds for disabled persons or their families.