Nevada Revised Statutes 435.575 – Individualized plan of services for consumer
1. An individualized written plan of intellectual disability services or developmental disability services must be developed, as applicable, for each consumer of each facility. The plan must:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 435.575
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Treatment: means any combination of procedures or activities, of whatever level of intensity and whatever duration, ranging from occasional counseling sessions to full-time admission to a residential facility. See Nevada Revised Statutes 435.007
(a) Provide for the least restrictive treatment procedure that may reasonably be expected to benefit the consumer; and
(b) Be developed with the input and participation of:
(1) The consumer, to the extent that he or she is able to provide input and participate; and
(2) To the extent that the consumer is unable to provide input and participate, the parent or guardian of the consumer if the consumer is under 18 years of age and is not legally emancipated, or the legal guardian of a consumer who has been adjudicated incapacitated.
2. The plan must be kept current and must be modified, with the input and participation of the consumer, the parent or guardian of the consumer or the legal guardian of the consumer, as appropriate, when indicated. The plan must be thoroughly reviewed at least once every 3 months.
3. The person in charge of implementing the plan of services must be designated in the plan.