A developmental disability is a disability which:

1. Is attributable to:
   • Intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy or autism, or a learning disability related to a brain dysfunction; or
   • Any other mental or physical disability or combination of mental or physical disabilities that involve brain damage or dysfunction. Examples of conditions might include intra-cranial neoplasm, degenerative brain disease or brain damage associated with accidents and
2. Is manifested before the person attains age twenty-two; and
3. Is likely to continue indefinitely; and
4. Results in substantial functional limitations in two or more of the following areas of major life activities:
   • Self-care – Daily activities which enable a person to meet basic needs for food, hygiene, and appearance; demonstrated ongoing ability to appropriately perform basic activities of daily living with little or no assistance or supervision.
   • Receptive and expressive language development – Communication involving verbal and nonverbal behavior enabling a person to understand and express ideas and information to the general public with or without assistive devices; demonstrated ability to understand ordinary spoken and written communications and to speak and write well enough to communicate thoughts accurately and appropriately on an ongoing basis.
   • Learning – General cognitive competence and ability to acquire new behaviors, perceptions, and information and to apply experiences in new situations; demonstrated ongoing ability to acquire information, process experiences, and appropriately perform ordinary, cognitive, age- appropriate tasks on an ongoing basis.
   • Self-direction – Management and control over one’s social and personal life; ability to make decisions and perform activities affecting and protecting personal interests; demonstrated ongoing ability to take charge of life activities as age-appropriate through an appropriate level of self-responsibility and assertiveness.
   • Capacity for independent living or economic self-sufficiency – Age-Appropriate ability to live without extraordinary assistance from other persons or devices, especially to maintain normal societal roles; ability to maintain adequate employment and financial support; ability to earn a living wage, and ability to function on an ongoing basis as an adult independent of extraordinary emotional, physical, medical, or financial support systems.
   • Mobility – Motor development and ability to use fine and gross motor skills; demonstrated ongoing ability to move about while performing purposeful activities with or without assistive devices and with little or no assistance or supervision; and
5. Reflects the person’s need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary, or generic care, habilitation or other services which may be of lifelong or extended duration and are individually planned and coordinated.