Section 6210.63. Diagnosis of mental retardation

The facility shall document the applicant’s or recipient’s diagnosis of mental retardation by meeting the following requirements:

(1) A licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist or a licensed physician who practices psychiatry shall certify that the applicant or recipient has significantly subaverage intellectual functioning which is documented by one of the following:

(i) Performance that is more than two standard deviations below the mean as measurable on a standardized general intelligence test.

(ii) Performance that is slightly higher than two standard deviations below the mean of a standardized general intelligence test during a period when the person manifests serious impairments of adaptive behavior.

(2) A qualified mental retardation professional as defined in 42 CFR 483.430 (relating to condition of participation: facility staffing) shall certify that the applicant or recipient has impairments in adaptive behavior as provided by a standardized assessment of adaptive functioning which shows that the applicant or recipient has one of the following:

(i) Significant limitations in meeting the standards of maturation, learning, personal independence or social responsibility of his age and cultural group.

(ii) Substantial functional limitation in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(A) Self-care.

(B) Receptive and expressive language.

(C) Learning.

(D) Mobility.

(E) Self-direction.

(F) Capacity for independent living.

(G) Economic self-sufficiency.

(3) It has been certified that documentation to substantiate that the applicant’s or recipient’s conditions were manifest before the applicant’s or recipient’s 22nd birthday, as established in section 102 of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (42 U.S.C.A. § 6001).

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Cross References

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code § 6210.1 (relating to applicability).