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 92 STAT. 3004

PUBLIC LAW 95-602—NOV. 6, 1978 "FINDINGS AND PURPOSES

42 USC 6000.

"SEC. 101. (a) The Congress finds that— " (1) there are more than two million persons with developmental disabilities in the United States; "(2) individuals with disabilities occurring during their developmental period are more vulnerable and less able to reach an independent level of existence than other handicapped individuals who generally have had a normal developmental period on which to draw during the rehabilitation process; "(3) persons with developmental disabilities often require specialized lifelong services to be provided by many agencies in a coordinated manner in order to meet the persons' needs; "(4) general service agencies and agencies providing specialized services to disabled persons tend to overlook or exclude persons with developmental disabilities in their planning and delivery of services; and " (5) it is in the national interest to strengthen specific programs, especially programs that reduce or eliminate the need for institutional care, to meet the needs of persons with developmental disabilities. "(b)(1) It is the overall purpose of this title to assist States to assure that persons with developmental disabilities receive the care, treatment, and other services necessary to enable them to achieve their maximum potential through a system which coordinates, monitors, plans, and evaluates those services and which ensures the protection of the legal and human rights of persons with developmental disabilities. " (2) The specific purposes of this title are— " (A) to assist in the provision of comprehensive services to persons with developmental disabilities, with priority to those persons whose needs cannot be covered or otherwise met under the Edu20 USC 1401 cation for All Handicapped Children Act, the Rehabilitation Act note. of 1973, or other health, education, or welfare programs; 29use701 note. "(B) to assist States in appropriate planning activities; Grants. "(C) to make grants to States and public and private, nonprofit agencies to establish model programs, to demonstrate innovative habilitation techniques, and to train professional and paraprofessional personnel with respect to providing services to persons with developmental disabilities; "(D) to make grants to university affiliated facilities to assist them in administering and operating demonstration facilities for the provision of services to persons with developmental disabilities, and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to provide specialized services for these persons; and " (E) to make grants to support a system in each State to protect the legal and human rights of all persons with developmental disabilities.". DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL REPORT

42 USC 6001.

SEC. 503. (a) Section 102(1) is amended by inserting "the Northern Mariana Islands," after "Guam,". (b)(1) Paragraph (7) of section 102 is amended to read as follows: "(7) The term 'developmental disability' means a severe, chronic disability of a person which— "(A) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;

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