How to Apply for South Dakota Developmental Center Services

The South Dakota Developmental Center (SDDC) will assess each applicant through a review team process that includes a comprehensive record review that addresses all admission criteria.

Who is eligible?

INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE
 

CRITERIA 1 : ELIGIBILITY FOR ICF/IID

The primary purpose of an Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID) is to furnish health or rehabilitative services to persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities or other related conditions .

Persons with other related conditions means individuals who have a severe, chronic disability that meets all of the following conditions:

1. It is attributable to

1. Cerebral palsy or epilepsy; or
2. Any other condition, other than mental illness, found to be closely related to intellectual disabilities because this condition results in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior similar to that of individuals with intellectual disabilities, and requires treatment or services similar to those required for these persons.

2. It is manifested before the person reaches age 22.
3. It is likely to continue indefinitely.
4. It results in substantial functional limitations in three or more of the following areas of major life activity:

1. Self-care
2. Understanding and use of language
3. Learning
4. Mobility
5. Self-direction
6. Capacity for independent living

CRITERIA 2: ELIGIBILITY AND NEED FOR ICF/IID SERVICES

• To be eligible for ICF/IID services under Medicaid, the following criteria must be met:

1. The individual must be eligible for Medicaid under article 67:16
2. The individual must be developmentally disabled
3. The utilization review team must have determined that the individual is in need of ICF/IID services pursuant to 67:54:03:04

• To be determined in need of ICF/IID services, the individual must have a substantial functional limitation in three or more of the following functional areas as determined by a completed Inventory for Client and Agency Planning (ICAP):

1. Self-care
2. Receptive and expressive language
3. Learning/general cognitive competence
4. Mobility
5. Self-direction
6. Capacity for independent living
7. Economic self-sufficiency

This determination is reviewed annually to re-determine if individual continues to need ICF/IID services.

• If subsequent additional adaptive behavior testing reveals results inconsistent with ICAP testing results completed prior to admission to SDDC, within thirty (30) days of admission to SDDC or annually thereafter, results of the two or more testings will be compared for inconsistencies to determine/re-determine eligibility/need for ICF/IID services at SDDC.

 

CRITERIA 3:

• Individual must have unsuccessfully received treatment in a less-restrictive environment

 

CRITERIA 4:

• Individual must display behaviors that are dangerous or cause concern for the safety of the individual or others

Application for ID/DD Services