- For the purposes of this chapter, a “child with a physical disability” is one under twenty-one (21) years of age who is deemed to have a physical disability by any reason, whether congenital or acquired, as a result of accident, or disease, that requires medical, surgical, or dental treatment and rehabilitation, and who is or may be totally or partially incapacitated for the receipt of a normal education or for self-support.
- This definition does not include those children whose sole diagnosis is blindness or deafness; nor does this definition include children who are diagnosed as psychotic.
- This definition does not prohibit children’s special services from accepting for treatment children with acute conditions such as, but not necessarily limited to, fractures, burns and osteomyelitis.