Nevada Revised Statutes 435.442 – Training and education concerning sexual abuse
The Division shall ensure that each facility to which a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability is able to be admitted pursuant to this chapter provides:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 435.442
- 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
- 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
- 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
1. Training to each employee of the facility regarding the protocol that must be followed if the employee becomes aware of any sexual abuse of a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability that is admitted to the facility; and
2. Education to each person with an intellectual disability or person with a developmental disability that is admitted to the facility which:
(a) Is appropriate with regard to the level of the person’s intellectual and developmental abilities; and
(b) Explains what sexual abuse is and how to report sexual abuse.