Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 347 - Persons With Developmental Disabilities

• Active treatment: means provision of services as specified in an individualized service plan. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• Case management services: means all such services to persons with developmental disabilities as will assist them in gaining access to needed social, medical, legal, educational, and other services, and such term includes:
  (a) Follow-along services which assure, through a continuing relationship between an agency or provider and a person with a developmental disability and the person's parent, if the person is a minor, or guardian, if the person has been adjudicated legally disabled, that the changing needs of the person and the family are recognized and appropriately met. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Habilitation: means the process described in the individualized service plan by which a person is assisted to acquire and maintain physical, mental, and social skills which will enable him to live most efficiently and effectively in the least restrictive individually appropriate environment. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• Person with a developmental disability: means a person with a long-term disability which:
  (a) Is attributable to a developmental or physical impairment or combination of developmental and physical impairments, including pervasive developmental disorders. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• Representative: means any individual who can advise and advocate for a person with developmental disabilities and who shall serve at the request and pleasure of such person. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• residential alternative: means the living space occupied by the person with a developmental disability, including single-person homes, natural family homes, institutional facilities, and all other types of living arrangements. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• Services: means such residential, developmental, vocational, support and related services, training, and active treatment in the least restrictive, individually appropriate environment to provide for continuing development of independent or interdependent living skills of persons with developmental disabilities. See Kentucky Statutes 347.020
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
  that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010