Guest guest Posted February 25, 2006 Report Posted February 25, 2006 The HCS program is specifically designed to assure that people with mental retardation live in the community vs. institutional placement. For the HCS program, an individual must have mental retardation. My son's IQs have bounced up and down and have mostly been too high, but when they came up on the list I culled all of their previous evaluations to find an MHMR or school eval that brought them in under an IQ of 75. I provided this to MHMR, who updated their Diagnoses of Mental Retardation (DMR), which allowed them to qualify because they also have a related disability (autism). I think the IQ may have been another reason that Austin took a bit longer to review the case and approve one of my boys for the Medicaid waiver. (They have tested from 72 to 108.) Ken , MHMR director, has said that this is a problem with HCS because so many kids with autism who do not function as well day-to-day as individuals with lower IQs end up falling through the cracks. They can qualify for CLASS, but it does not provide as much residential support. LHS Quote
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