Hawaii State Department of Health

Department of Health Hawaii
Developmental Disabilities Division
Case Management and Information Services Branch

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The Department of Health Hawaii

Developmental Disabilities Division
Case Management and Information Services Branch
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Department of Health Hawaii

Whom Do We Help?

We assist people with developmental disabilities and/or mental retardation, and their families or guardians.

What is Mental Retardation (MR)?

This refers to a person with significant subaverage general intellectual functioning with moderate adaptive functioning and manifested before the age of eighteen.

What is a Developmental Disability (DD)?

A developmental disability is a severe chronic disability which:

  1. Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and physical impairments;
  2. Is manifested before age twenty-two;
  3. Is likely to continue indefinitely;
  4. Results in substantial functional limitations in three or more areas of major life activities: self-care, receptive and expressive language, learning, self-direction, capacity for independent living, economic sufficiency; and
  5. Reflects the need for a combination and sequence of special interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment, or other services, which are life long, or of extended duration and individually planned and coordinated.