1001.20
. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Cognitive Developmental Disability" means any of the
following:
(1) "Intellectual disability" means a condition of significantly
subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently
with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the
developmental period.
(2) "Autism" means a diagnosed condition of markedly abnormal or
impaired development in social interaction, in communication, or in
both, with a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and
interests.
(3) Disabling conditions found to be closely related to
intellectual disability or autism, or that require treatment similar
to that required for individuals with intellectual disability or
autism, and that would qualify an individual for services provided
under the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
(b) "Diversion-related treatment and habilitation" means, but is
not limited to, specialized services or special adaptations of
generic services, directed toward the alleviation of cognitive
developmental disability or toward social, personal, physical, or
economic habilitation or rehabilitation of an individual with a
cognitive developmental disability, and includes, but is not limited
to, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, personal care, day care,
domiciliary care, special living arrangements, physical,
occupational, and speech therapy, training, education, sheltered
employment, mental health services, recreation, counseling of the
individual with this disability and of his or her family, protective
and other social and sociolegal services, information and referral
services, follow-along services, and transportation services
necessary to ensure delivery of services to persons with cognitive
developmental disabilities.
(c) "Regional center" means a regional center for the
developmentally disabled established under the Lanterman
Developmental Disabilities Services Act that is organized as a
private nonprofit community agency to plan, purchase, and coordinate
the delivery of services that cannot be provided by state agencies to
developmentally disabled persons residing in a particular geographic
catchment area, and that is licensed and funded by the State
Department of Developmental Services.
(d) "Director of a regional center" means the executive director
of a regional center for the developmentally disabled or his or her
designee.
(e) "Agency" means the prosecutor, the probation department, and
the regional center involved in a particular defendant's case.
(f) "Dual agency diversion" means a treatment and habilitation
program developed with court approval by the regional center,
administered jointly by the regional center and by the probation
department, that is individually tailored to the needs of the
defendant as derived from the defendant's individual program plan
pursuant to Section 4646 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
that includes, but is not limited to, treatment specifically
addressed to the criminal offense charged, for a specified period of
time as prescribed in Section 1001.28.
(g) "Single agency diversion" means a treatment and habilitation
program developed with court approval by the regional center,
administered solely by the regional center without involvement by the
probation department, that is individually tailored to the needs of
the defendant as derived from the defendant's individual program plan
pursuant to Section 4646 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and
that includes, but is not limited to, treatment specifically
addressed to the criminal offense charged, for a specified period of
time as prescribed in Section 1001.28.