RS 40:1071.1: Definitions

For the purposes of this Part, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) "Children with special health care needs" means children who have health problems which require services beyond routine and basic care. This includes children with disabilities, handicapping conditions, and chronic illnesses of sufficient severity to cause or to be likely to cause impairments which could significantly limit major life activities.

(2) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.

(3) "Multidisciplinary team" means a coordinated group of various professionals who meet jointly to provide care and treatment for persons with spinal cord dysfunction.

(4) "Spinal cord disabled" means any individual under the age of twenty-one who has a spinal cord disease, injury, neural tube defect, or hydrocephalus, whether congenital or acquired, which results in partial or total loss of motor or sensory functions, or both, and which results in partial or total disability, whether such disability is temporary or permanent. This definition shall include spina bifida and other diseases of the spinal column.