{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-143b-178","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-178","heading":"Council on Developmental Disabilities - definitions.","body":"The following definitions apply to this Chapter:\n(1)\tThe term \"developmental disability\" means a severe, chronic disability of a person which:\na.\tIs attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;\nb.\tIs manifested before the person attains age 22, unless the disability is caused by a traumatic head injury and is manifested after age 22;\nc.\tIs likely to continue indefinitely;\nd.\tResults in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity: (i) self-care, (ii) receptive and expressive language, (iii) learning, (iv) mobility, (v) self-direction, (vi) capacity for independent living, and (vii) economic self-sufficiency; and\ne.\tReflects the person's need 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.\n(2)\tThe term \"services for persons with developmental disabilities,\" as it is used in this Article, means:\na.\tAlternative community living arrangement services, employment related activities, child development services, and case management services; and\nb.\tAny other specialized services or special adaptations of generic services including diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, personal care, child care, adult care, special living arrangements, training, education, sheltered employment, recreation and socialization, counseling of the individual with such a disability and of his family, protective and other social and sociolegal services, information and referral services, follow-along services, nonvocational social-developmental services, and transportation services necessary to assure delivery of services to persons with developmental disabilities, and services to promote and coordinate activities to prevent developmental disabilities. (1973, c. 476, s. 168; 1977, c. 881, ss. 1, 2; 1979, c. 752, s. 1 1987, c. 780; 1995, c. 535, s. 33; 1997-506, s. 61.)","path":["Chapter 143B. Executive Organization Act of 1973.","Article 3. Department of Health and Human Services.","Part 13. Council on Developmental Disabilities."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_143B/GS_143B-178.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:22:43Z","sha256":"4cdfa4cdbf1a8a512f138695cf36e646b0a061a855ef174fdd5c800192b8dcaf","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-143b-177","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-143b-179"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}