1. Any person suspected to have an intellectual disability or developmental disability shall be eligible for initial diagnostic and counseling services through the regional centers.

2. If it is determined by a regional center through a comprehensive evaluation that a person has an intellectual disability or a developmental disability so as to require the provision of services, and if such person, such person’s parent, if the person is a minor, or legal guardian, requests that he be registered as a client of a regional center, the regional center shall, within the limits of available resources, secure a comprehensive program of any necessary services for such person. Such services may include, but need not be limited to, the following:

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 633.110

  • Comprehensive evaluation: a study, including a sequence of observations and examinations, of an individual leading to conclusions and recommendations formulated jointly by an interdisciplinary team of persons with special training and experience in the diagnosis and habilitation of a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability. See Missouri Laws 633.005
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • 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.
  • Guardian: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Regional center: an entity so designated by the department to provide, directly or indirectly, for comprehensive developmental disability services under this chapter in a particular region. See Missouri Laws 633.005
  • Respite care: temporary and short-term residential care, sustenance and supervision of a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability who otherwise resides in a family home. See Missouri Laws 633.005

(1) Diagnosis and evaluation;

(2) Counseling;

(3) Respite care;

(4) Recreation;

(5) Habilitation;

(6) Training;

(7) Vocational habilitation;

(8) Residential care;

(9) Homemaker services;

(10) Developmental day care;

(11) Sheltered workshops;

(12) Referral to appropriate services;

(13) Placement;

(14) Transportation.

3. In securing the comprehensive program of services, the regional centers shall involve the client, his family or his legal guardian in decisions affecting his care, habilitation, placement or referral. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the care, treatment, habilitation, referral or placement of any person with an intellectual disability or developmental disability to any residential facility, day program or other specialized service without the written consent of the client, his parent, if he is a minor, or his legal guardian, unless such care, treatment, habilitation, referral, or placement is authorized pursuant to an order of the court under the provisions of chapter 475.

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