Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 435 > Care and Education of Children With Intellectual Disabilities and Children With Developmental Disabilities by County

• Child: means any person under the age of 18 years who may be eligible for intellectual disability services or developmental disability services. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
• Developmental disability: means autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy or any other neurological condition diagnosed by a qualified professional that:

  (a) Is manifested before the person affected attains the age of 22 years;

  (b) Is likely to continue indefinitely;

  (c) Results in substantial functional limitations, as measured by a qualified professional, in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

  (1) Taking care of oneself;

  (2) Understanding and use of language;

  (3) Learning;

  (4) Mobility;

  (5) Self-direction; and

  (6) Capacity for independent living; and

  (d) Results in the person affected requiring a combination of individually planned and coordinated services, support or other assistance that is lifelong or has an extended duration. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007

• Division: means the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
• 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.
• Intellectual disability: means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Parent: means the parent of a child. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
• Person: includes a child and any other consumer with an intellectual disability and a child or any other consumer with a developmental disability who has attained the age of 18 years. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007