- "Five-Year Window"
- 1619 (a) & (b) Provisions
- 1619(a) & (b)
- A&D FPL
- A.B. 3632
- ABD-MN
- Accessibility
- Accreditation
- Accreditation Council on Services for People with Disabilities (The Accreditation Council)
- ADA
- ADA Allowances
- Adaptive Behavior
- Adaptive Physical Education
- Adult Development Center
- Age-appropriate
- ALJ
- Ambulatory
- Annual goals
- Annual Review
- Any Income Deduction
- Apgar
- Appropriate Education
- Appropriate Placement
- Architectural Barrier
- Area Boards
- Assessment
- At-risk
- Attention deficit disorder (ADD or ADHD)
- Aversive Treatment
- Bayley Scales of Infant Development
- Behavior Intervention
- Behavior Management Program
- Board and Care
- C.A.R.F.
- California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR)
- California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
- CAPI
- Care Provider
- CEC
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Child Health and Disability Prevention Program (CHDP)
- Child Protective Services (CPS)
- Circle of Support
- Client Developmental Evaluation Report (CDER)
- Client Program Coordinator (CPC, or also called Case Manager)
- Client Rights Advocate
- Community Advisory Committee (CAC)
- Community Based Instruction (CBI)
- Community Based Program
- Community Care Facility (CCF)
- Community Colleges (C.C.S)
- Community Integration
- Community Placement Plan (CPP)
- Community Setting
- Community Supported Living Arrangement (CSLA)
- Community-Based Day Programs
- Compliance Complaint
- Conservatorship
- Consumer
- Core Curriculum
- Counseling
- Countable Income Calculation
- Day Training and Activity Center (DTAC)
- Deeming
- Deinstitutionalization
- Department of Developmental Services (DDS)
- Department of Education (DOE)
- Department of Rehabilitation (DR)
- Department of Social Services (DSS)
- Designated Instruction and Services (DIS)
- Developmental Center
- Developmental Delay
- Developmental Disability (DD)
- Developmental History
- Disability as Defined by the Social Security Administration
- Disregard
- Down Syndrome
- Dual Diagnosis
- Dual-Eligibles, or "Medi-Medi"
- Due Process
- Due Process Hearing
- Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT)
- Early Intervention
- Early Start
- Earned Income Deduction or Disregard
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142 or I.D.E.A.)
- Educational Advocate
- Emotional Disturbance (ED)
- Employment Development Department (EDD)
- Epilepsy
- EPSDT medical necessity standard
- Extended Period of Eligibility (EPE)
- Extended Year
- Facilitated Communication
- Fair Hearing
- Federal Benefit Rate (FBR)
- Federal Poverty Level (FPL)
- Food Stamps
- Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
- Full Inclusion
- Full-Scope Medi-Cal
- Functional Analysis Assessment (FAA)
- General Relief/General Assistance (GR/GA)
- Generic Services
- Guardianship
- Habilitation Services
- Head Start
- Health and Welfare Agency
- Healthy Families
- Home Health Care
- Impairment Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
- In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
- In-Kind Support and Maintenance
- Inclusion
- Incompetent
- Independent Educational Assessment (IEA)
- Independent Living Skills Program (ILS)
- Individual Education Plan (IEP)
- Individual Threshold Amount
- Individual Transition Plan (ITP)
- Individual Work Plan (IWP)
- Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
- Individualized Program Plan (IPP)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
- Infant Intervention
- Institutional deeming
- Intake and Assessment
- Interagency Agreements
- Interdisciplinary Team (IDT)
- Intermediate Care Facility/Developmental Disability (ICF/DD)
- Intermediate Care Facility/Developmental Disability-Habilitative (ICF/DD-H)
- Job Site Training
- Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)
- Katie Beckett Waiver
- Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Act
- Lead agency
- Learning Disabled (LD)
- Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Level of Care (LOC)
- Limited Conservatorship
- Local Education Agency (LEA)
- Local Plan
- Long Term Care (LTC)
- Low Incidence Disability
- Mainstreaming
- Maintenance Need Level (MNL)
- Medi-Cal
- Medi-Cal Waivers
- Mediation
- Medicaid
- Medicaid Buy-In
- Medical Therapy Unit (MTU)
- Medicare Benefit Period
- Mental Retardation
- Needs Assessment
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
- Nonpublic Agency (NPA)
- Nonpublic School (NPS)
- Normalization
- Notice of Action (NOA)
- Occupational Therapy (OT)
- Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
- Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits
- One-Third Reduction Rule
- Onset Date
- Organization of Area Boards (OAB)
- Orthopedically Handicapped (OH)
- Other health impaired (OHI)
- Out-of-Home Placement
- Out-Of–Pocket Cost
- Overpayment
- Part C
- PASS
- Payor of last resort
- People First
- Perceptual motor skills
- Person with a Disability
- Person-Centered Planning
- Physical therapy (PT)
- Pickle Amendment
- Placement
- Plan for Achieving Self-Support, (PASS)
- POMS
- Positive Behavior Support
- Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)
- Presumed Maximum Value Rule
- Presumptive Disability
- Principe Property Exemption
- Private Industry Council (P.I.C.)
- Procedural Safeguards
- Program Development Funds (P.D.F.)
- Program Operations Manual System (POMS)
- Program Placement
- Protection and Advocacy, Inc. (PAI)
- Protective Filing Date
- Psychological services
- Public Agency
- Public Law 94-142 (Education for the Handicapped Act (EHA) of 1975)
- Purchase of Service Agreement (POS)
- Purchase of Service Funds
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Quarters of Coverage
- Reasonable Accommodation
- Regional Centers (RCs)
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-112)
- Related Services
- Representative Payee
- Residential Service Provider
- Resource Specialist Program (RSP)
- Respite
- School of Attendance
- School of Residence
- School Psychologist
- Section 504 Accommodation
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Segregation
- Self Advocacy
- Self-Care
- Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED)
- Service Provider
- Severely Handicapped
- Share of Cost (SOC)
- Sheltered Employment
- Site-Based Program
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
- Social/Recreation Program
- Special Day Class (SDC)
- Special Education
- Special Education Local Planning Area (SELPA)
- Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Speech Pathologists
- Staffing Ratio
- State Council on Developmental Disabilities
- State Supplemental Payment (SSP)
- Student Study Team (SST)
- Substantial Gainful Activity, (SGA)
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Support Services
- Supported Employment
- Supported Living
- Surrogate Parent
- Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF)
- Three Month Grace Period
- Ticket To Work program
- Title 17
- Title 22
- Title 5 Regulations
- Transition Services
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Travel training
- Trial Work Month: In the context of SSDI
- Trial Work Period (TWP)
- Triennial Assessment
- Unearned Income
- Validity
- Vendor/Provider
- Vendorization
- Vision services
- Visual motor skills
- Visually Handicapped or Visually Impaired (VH or VI)
- Vocational education (Voc Ed)
- Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
- Vocational Services
- Work Activity Program (WAP)
- Work Incentives
- Zero Exclusion