Terms Used In Kansas Statutes > Chapter 76 > Article 12b - State Institutions for People With Intellectual Disability

• Adaptive behavior: means the effectiveness or degree with which an individual meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility expected of that person's age, cultural group and community. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Care: means supportive services, including, but not limited to, provision of room and board, supervision, protection, assistance in bathing, dressing, grooming, eating and other activities of daily living. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Conservator: means an individual or corporation appointed by the court to act on behalf of a conservatee and possessed of some or all of the powers and duties set out in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Disabled person: includes incapacitated persons and incompetent persons as defined herein. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Institution: means a state institution for people with intellectual disability including the following institutions: Kansas neurological institute and Parsons state hospital. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Minor: means any person defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Natural guardian: means both the biological or adoptive mother and father of a minor if neither parent has been found to be an adult with an impairment in need of a guardian or has had parental rights terminated by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Respite care: means temporary, short-term care not exceeding 90 days per calendar year to provide relief from the daily pressures involved in caring for a person with intellectual disability. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Restraint: means the use of a totally enclosed crib or any material to restrict or inhibit the free movement of one or more limbs of a person except medical devices which limit movement for examination, treatment or to insure the healing process. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Seclusion: means being placed alone in a locked room where the individual's freedom to leave is thereby restricted and where such placement is not under continuous observation. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Secretary: means the secretary for aging and disability services or the designee of the secretary. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
• Superintendent: means the chief administrative officer of the institution or the designee of the chief administrative officer. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01
• Training: means the provision of specific environmental, physical, mental, social and educational interventions and therapies for the purpose of halting, controlling or reversing processes that cause, aggravate or complicate malfunctions or dysfunctions of development. See Kansas Statutes 76-12b01