Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Assistance for the Developmentally Disabled - States that the purpose of this title is to improve the provisions of services to persons with developmental disabilities. Defines "developmental disability" as a disability: (1) attributable to mental retardation, or cerebral palsy, or epilepsy, or autism, or learning disability; or (2) attributable to any other condition of an individual found to be closely related to mental retardation as it refers to general intellectual functioning or impairment in adaptive behavior or to require treatment similar to that required for mentally retarded individuals, which disability originates before such individual attains age eighteen, has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitutes a severe handicap to such individual's ability to function normally in society. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year June 30, 1975, and a like amount for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of assisting in the modernization and renovation of facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagn…