Special needs child definition

Special needs child means a child with needs for emotional care, behavioral care, or physical and personal care which require additional skill, knowledge, or responsibility on the part of the foster parents, as measured by Form 470-4401, Foster Child Behavioral Assessment. See subrule 156.6(4).
Special needs child means a person under the age of 18 at the time of adoption, who is a dependent of a public or private non-profit adoption agency, is legally free for adoption and has been determined by the agency to have specific conditions.
Special needs child means a child with one or more of the following conditions:

More Definitions of Special needs child

Special needs child means a child who meets one or more of the criteria set forth at 441—subrule 201.3(1).
Special needs child means a legally free child for whom it is difficult to find an adoptive home and who meets the eligibil- ity criteria for adoption assistance under s. HFS 50.03.
Special needs child means “special needs child” as defined in Section 409.166(2), F.S.
Special needs child means a child declared by the chief executive under this Act to be a special needs child, and includes a non-citizen child and a child to whom section 20(3) applies.
Special needs child means children who fall into one or more of the following categories:
Special needs child means a child under the age of 18 who is incapable of self- care on a daily basis because of a mental or physical disability that substantially limits one or more major life activities.
Special needs child means a child under the age of 18 who requires a level of care over and above the norm for his/her age due to a physical, developmental, behavioral, mental or medical disability.