Eligibility & Application Information
The Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Intellectual/Developmental Disability (I/DD) Waiver is for Kansas residents age 5 and older. Eligibility determination is the first step to accessing services or getting placed on the waiting list for the HCBS I/DD Waiver in Miami, Anderson, & Linn counties. See the Kansas eligibility requirements for this waiver below.
Additional information about Kansas HCBS waivers and eligibility requirements can be found at: https://www.kdads.ks.gov/commissions/home-community-based-services-(hcbs)
Application Packet
Contact the CDDO Eligibility Specialist at (913) 256-7021 to request an Eligibility Packet.
You may also print and fill out a copy of the packet available on the CDDO Forms page.
Note: The Application Packet is subject to change, it is not advised to print multiple copies.
Kansas Eligibility Requirements for the HCBS I/DD Waiver
Intellectual Disability means substantial limitations in present functioning that is manifested during the period from birth to age 18 years and is characterized by significantly sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior including related limitations in two or more of the following applicable adaptive skill areas:
- Communication
- Self-care
- Home living
- Social skills
- Community use
- Self-direction
- Health and safety
- Functional academics
- Leisure
- Work
Other Developmental Disability means a condition such as autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, epilepsy, or other similar physical or mental impairment (or a condition which has received a dual diagnosis of Intellectual Disability and Mental Illness) and is evidenced by a severe, chronic disability which meets all of the following criteria:
- It is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments, AND
- It is manifest before the age of 22, AND
- It is likely to continue indefinitely, AND
- It results in substantial functional limitations in any three or more of the following areas of life functioning:
- Self-Care
- Understanding & use of language
- Learning and adapting
- Mobility
- Self-direction in setting goals & undertaking activities to accomplish goals
- Living Independently
- Economic self-sufficiency, AND
- It reflects a need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary or generic care, treatment or other services which are lifelong, or extended in duration and are individually planned and coordinated, AND
- Does not include individuals who are solely severely emotionally disturbed or seriously and persistently mentally ill or have disabilities solely as a result of infirmities of aging.
For Children under the age of six, developmental disability means a severe, chronic disability that meets all of the following criteria:
- It is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or a combination of mental and physical impairments, AND
- It is likely to continue indefinitely, AND
- It results in at least three developmental delays as measured by qualified professionals using appropriate diagnostic instruments or procedures, AND
- It reflects a need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic care, treatment, or other services which are lifelong or extended in duration and are individually planned and coordinated, AND
- This does not include individuals who are solely severely emotionally disturbed or seriously and persistently mentally ill.