✔ A Global Assessment Functioning of 50 or below
✔ A current DSM diagnosis
✔ Major self-injurious actions, including recent suicide attempts;
✔ Difficulties that present a significant risk of harm to self or others, including frequent or unpredictable physical aggression; or
✔ A primary diagnosis of substance significant deficits and pervasive impairment in one or more of the following areas:
✔ Conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills to include daily living and self care;
✔ Communication, cognitive or expressions of affect;
✔ Self-care activities or participation in social activities;
✔ Responding appropriately to an emergency; or
✔ Multiple physical disabilities, including sensory impairments;

Pervasive Developmental Disorder, which is a category of disorders (e.g. Autistic Disorder or Rett’s Disorder) characterized by prominent, severe deficits and pervasive impairment in one or more of the following areas of development:

✔ Conceptual, social and practical adaptive skills to include daily living and self-care;
✔ Communication, cognition or expressions of affect;
✔ Self-care activities or participation in social activities;
✔ Responding appropriately to an emergency; and
✔ Multiple physical disabilities including sensory impairments