Glossary : I-M
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ICC - Interagency Coordinating Council
This is an advisory group of parents and professionals who advise the governor on early intervention issues.
ICF/MR
Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded or intermediate care facility for people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities (ICFMR/DD). An ICF/MR provides a level of medical or custodial care beyond that required in supported living or group home placements, but less than a full-time intensive medical or custodial need. There are three ICF/MR facilities in Colorado (9/00): Grand Junction Regional Center (state), Wheat Ridge Regional Center (state), and Good Shepherd (private sector).
IDEA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1990. See PL 101-476.
IDEIA
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004. IDEIA 2004 reauthorizes IDEA and maintains the basic principles of the law, a free appropriate public education for all students with disabilities, in the least restrictive environment; however, there are many changes and modifications to the IEP process and other aspects of the identification and evaluation of students with disabilities.
Idiopathic
A disease or condition arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause. Peculiar to the individual.
IDT - Interdisciplinary Team
The team of people who develop the Individualized Plan (IP). Members of the team include the person applying for or receiving services, his or her parents, guardian, the resource coordinator, a psychologist, the Community Centered Board administrator and other persons who can help identify the person's needs and appropriate programs.
IEP - Individualized Education Program
An educational plan for a specific student written by a multidisciplinary team. The plan states learning objectives and steps to meet the objective within a given time frame.
IFSP - Individualized Family Service Plan
A plan for an infant or toddler (birth through age three) written by a multidisciplinary team. The plan includes information on the child's present level of functioning, a statement of family strengths and needs, as related to the child, major outcomes expected, and services needed.
Imitation or Modeling
Learning taking place as a function of copying a behavior of another person.
Immunization
The administration, usually by injection, of serums as a means of making a person immune from developing specific diseases.
DPT Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus
MMR Measles, Mumps, Rubella
OPV Oral Polio Vaccine
HIB Hemophilus Influenza Type B
Impetigo
Rash with small blisters which become crusted and drain; usually occurring around the nose and mouth. Impetigo is contagious.
Inclusion
To have the opportunity to participate in all activities available in a community; for example, education in a traditional classroom.
Independence Initiative
Provides guidance and assistance to states to implement programs to support the self-direction of services and supports by persons with disabilities and their families.
Independent Living
When an individual, formerly receiving DDRC services, now lives independently. Or a residential situation in which a person with disabilities lives by him or herself with limited assistance from others.
Individual Service and Support Plan (ISSP)
A written plan designed by a service agency to identify specific program objectives and how progress will be measured. It becomes a supplement to the I-Plan.
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
An educational plan for a specific student written by a multidisciplinary team. The plan states learning objectives and steps to meet the objective within a given time frame.
Individualized Plan (IP)
A written plan designed to identify the total needs of a person receiving services and the services required to meet those needs. Also referred to as the Service Plan.
Infection Control
A program designed to provide a safe, sanitary and comfortable environment and to prevent the development and transmission of disease and infection.
Informed Consent
A decision based on knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages and implications of choosing a particular course of action.
Inhibit
To reduce or not allow something to be seen, as in abnormal reflexes or tone.
Intake
Activities performed by a resource coordinator to determine eligibility. Includes gathering information to start a person in a meaningful program of services.
Integrate (Motor)
Reducing a reflex so that it is no longer seen.
Integration
Participation in the mainstream of community life. Participation means the person with disabilities maintains social relationships with family, peers and nondisabled people in the community. They may work and live alongside people without disabilities.
Integration Services, LLC
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Intellectual Disability
The term used to describe cognitive impairment.
Interaction Resources DDD, Corp.
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Interdependence
Those multiple interactive relationships that are necessary to create a sense of belonging and support between people. These relationships are mutually sought, sustained over time and are beneficial to those involved.
Internet (computer term)
A global web connecting more than a million computers. Unlike on-line services, which are centrally controlled, the Internet is decentralized by design. Each Internet computer, called a host, is independent. Its operators can choose which Internet services to provide to its local users and which local services to make available to the global Internet community.
Intestate
Dying without a will. Property passes to heirs as required by state probate laws, regardless of how the deceased may have intended property to be distributed. If a family does not plan properly, a person with disabilities could inherit resources that exceed limits set for participation in programs such as Medicaid and, therefore, lose their federal benefits.
Intranet (computer term)
A Web site or group of Web sites belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization. An intranet Web site looks and acts like any other Web site, but the firewall surrounding an intranet fends off unauthorized access.
Introversion
Personality type that primarily derives pleasure from pursuits conducted by oneself rather than pursuits involving others. Opposite of extroversion.
IP - Individualized Plan
A written plan designed to identify the total needs of a person receiving services and the services required to meet those needs. Also referred to as the Service Plan.
IQ - Intelligence Quotient
A derived score from an intelligence test that provides information as to how an individual's aptitude for learning compares to other individuals of the same age.
Irrevocable
Unchangeable, as in a trust that cannot be changed.
IRSS
Individual Residential Services and Supports uses a variety of living arrangements designed to meet the unique needs of the person receiving services with no more than two persons receiving services per setting.
IRWE - Federal Impairment Related Work Expenses
A term used by Social Security Administration in association with determining a person’s social security benefits and payments. It is the cost of items or supports an individual may need in order to be able to work.
ISA - Intervention Services Administrators
Administrators responsible for special education in the Jefferson County School District.
ISP
Individual Service Plan used by SLS and CES.
ISP
Individual Support Plan written for persons receiving supported living services.
ISSP - Individual Service and Support Plan
A written plan designed by a service agency to identify specific program objectives and how progress will be measured. It becomes a supplement to the I-Plan
ITP
Individual Transition Plan.
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Jargon
Specialized terms used among professionals in a given discipline. Clear and meaningful communication is often hindered by the use of jargon and should be avoided when discussing developmental disabilities with parents, those with disabilities, or others. It is also confusing when individuals from several disciplines are discussing a topic since some words have different meanings in different disciplines.
Jargoning
Early language development stage where children use sounds and some words to resemble meaningful conversation.
Jaundice
Yellowish tint to the skin. Indication of liver involvement.
JBC
Joint Budget Committee.
JCHS
Jefferson County Department of Human Services.
JCMH - Jefferson Center for Mental Health
The community mental health center serving Jefferson, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties in Colorado. www.jeffersonmentalhealth.org
Jigs
A device used to hold materials being worked on or for guiding a tool or process in production.
Job Coach
A person who assists people in integrated employment situations.
Joint Budget Committee
A committee of the state legislature responsible for setting the budget for expenditure of funds.
Joint Stability
Muscles in front of and behind a joint that work at the same time. See co-contraction.
JTPA
The federal Job Training Partnership Act.
JTS - Jeffco Transition Services
JTS is a collaboration between the Jefferson County Public Schools and DDRC. This program is designed to support students ages 18-21 in their last three years of school eligibility. Considerable attention is devoted to the design of training programs so work, recreation, independent living skills and social inclusion are viable options for students with severe disabilities as they transition to adult life.
K
Keratosis
Thickening of skin.
Kinesthesia or Kinesthetic
Awareness of movements of body parts.
L
Labyrinth
Inner ear. Used to maintain equilibrium.
Lacrimal
Tear ducts.
LAN (computer term) - Local Area Network.
A computer network that spans a relatively small area. Most LANs are confined to a single building or group of buildings.
Laradon
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Lassitude
Weariness, exhaustion.
Laterality
Left and right awareness; ability to distinguish between body sides.
LEA
Local Education Agency.
Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA)
A nonprofit organization formed to advance the education and general welfare of children and adults of normal or potentially normal intelligence who manifest disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual, or coordinative nature. The organization was founded in 1964 as the Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (ACLD). The name was modified to include both “children and Adults,” but the acronym remained the same. In 1990, the name was officially changed to the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA). www.ldanatl.org
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
The most productive environment for an individual in which to address his or her needs. Such placement should range along a continuum of services and can include institutional placement, special schools, special classes, resource rooms or regular classroom placement. The family and their IEP or IHP team best decide the decision of least restrictive placement. Also see Least Restrictive Alternative.
Leisure
Time when a person is free from work and duties.
Living Will
Document prepared for health care providers expressing the desire not to be kept alive by artificial means if disabled beyond a reasonable expectation of recovery.
Localization
The ability to turn toward a sound source.
LPN
Licensed Practical Nurse.
M
MA
Mental Age.
Mainstreaming
Term used by educators to refer to the integration of children with disabilities into regular classes for part or all of the school day.
Managed Care
Strategies that seek to maximize the value of services by controlling their cost and use. Quality is promoted and measured to ensure cost effectiveness.
MANE
Mistreatment, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation.
Margaret Walters Center
A barrier-free program facility operated by DDRC. Located at 12665 West 52 nd Avenue, Arvada, CO, named in honor of Margaret (Meg) Walters, esteemed Red Cross volunteer.
MCO - Managed Care Organization.
This is a risk-bearing entity which receives a fixed payment to assure that a set of consumers get all the services they require as specified in the managed care plan. An MCO does not directly provide services.
MDE - Multidisciplinary Evaluation.
Performed by the Multidisciplinary Team.
MDT - Multidisciplinary Team.
A team comprised of a child’s parents and professionals from various disciplines responsible for evaluating and reevaluating children thought to be eligible for early intervention services.
Medicaid
A funding source authorized under Title XIX of the Social Security Act that provides health care assistance to qualified individuals. The program is funded by both federal and state money, but is administered by the state.
Medicare
A federal health insurance program run by the Health Care Financing Administration that includes both hospital and medical insurance.
Mental Age (MA)
A raw score from which an age equivalency can be determined.
Mental Retardation
The American Association on Mental Retardation defines mental retardation as referring to substantial limitations in present functioning. It is characterized by significantly below average intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with related limitations in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social skills, community use, self-direction, health and safety, functional academics, leisure and work. Mental retardation manifests before age eighteen.
MI Waiver - Mentally Ill waiver
A waiver program under Medicaid to provide persons with major mental illness a community alternative to nursing facility care. Age 18 and older.
Middle Ear
Space between the eardrum and the inner ear. Houses three bones and two muscles.
Midline
An imaginary line down the center of the body.
MIN - Most in Need
Terminology indicating that rationed services are allocated to those most in need.
MIS (computer term) - Management Information System.
MIS refers to a class of software that provides managers with tools for organizing and evaluating their departments.
MMIS - Medicaid Management Information System
The computerized information system that provides management information and support for the Medicaid program, administered by the Department of Human Services.
Mobility
Capability of moving.
Model Worker
Workers on short-term contracts who serve as role models for workers with disabilities. This allows flexibility within the work force to develop diversified contracts.
Modeling
Imitating or repeating a sound or action.
Monocular
Refers to one eye that is used while the other eye is nonfunctional, covered, or shut.
Motor Planning
The ability of the brain to carry out and sequence unfamiliar actions.
Mountain View Agency
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
Mrachek House
A contract agency eligible to serve persons with developmental disabilities within the DDRC service area.
MSO - Managed Service Organization.
An MSO integrates the functions of a managed care organization (MCO) with service delivery. An MSO may take the form of an integrated provider service network which agrees to form a separate entity that will accept risk and capitation, manage use across the network and carry out other MCO-type functions.
MSW
Masters in Social Work
Multiple Disabilities
Term for students having two or more significant impairments, one of which is cognitive. Historically this was referred to as Multiple Handicapped.
