Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-865.2: Definitions

As used in the Sheltered Workshop Act:

1. “Community services worker” means any person who:

a. contracts with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to

provide specialized foster care, habilitation training

specialist services, or homemaker services to persons

with developmental disabilities,

b. is not a licensed health professional, and

c. is employed by or under contract with a community

services provider to provide for compensation or as a

volunteer the following:

(1) health-related services,

(2) training, or

(3) supportive assistance;

2. “Contract” means the binding legal agreement to provide

sheltered workshop services, entered into between the provider and

the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department

of Human Services or the Oklahoma Health Care Authority;

3. “DDSD” means the Developmental Disabilities Services

Division of the Department of Human Services;

4. “Department” means the Department of Human Services;

5. “Developmental disability” means a severely chronic

disability of a person which:

a. is attributable to a physical or mental impairment or

a combination of physical or mental impairments,

b. is manifested before the person attains the age of

twenty-two (22) years,

c. is likely to continue indefinitely,

d. results in substantial functional limitations in three

or more of the following areas of major life activity:

(1) self-care,

(2) receptive and expressive language,

(3) learning,

(4) mobility,

(5) self-direction,

(6) capacity for independent living, or

(7) economic self-sufficiency, and

e. reflects the need of the person for a combination and

sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care,

treatment or other services which are of lifelong or

extended duration and are individually planned and

coordinated;

6. “Director” means the Director of Human Services;

7. “Licensee” means a person, corporation, partnership, limited

liability company, or association operating a sheltered workshop

which is licensed pursuant to the provisions of the Sheltered

Workshop Act;

8. “Provider” means a person, corporation, partnership, limited

liability company, association, or other entity that contracts with

the Developmental Disabilities Services Division of the Department

of Human Services or the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to operate a

sheltered workshop for persons with developmental disabilities;

9. “Service recipient” means a person participating in the

sheltered workshop; and

10. “Sheltered workshop” means a facility, or any portion

thereof, operated by a nonprofit organization, corporation,

partnership, limited liability company or association whose purpose

is to provide meaningful work or training activities to individuals

with developmental disabilities and holds a current certificate

under Section 14c of the Fair Labor Standards Act by the Wage and

Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor.