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TITLE 40SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
PART 19DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
CHAPTER 700CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER WSERVICE LEVEL SYSTEM
DIVISION 1BASIC SERVICE LEVEL
RULE §700.2303What are the characteristics of a child that needs the Basic Service Level?

A child needing basic services is capable of responding to limit setting or other interventions. The children needing basic services may include:

  (1) a child whose characteristics include one or more of the following:

    (A) transient difficulties and occasional misbehavior;

    (B) acting out in response to stress, but episodes of acting out are brief; and

    (C) behavior that is minimally disturbing to others, but the behavior is considered typical for the child's age and can be corrected.

  (2) a child with intellectual or developmental disabilities whose characteristics include minor to moderate difficulties with conceptual, social, and practical adaptive skills.


Source Note: The provisions of this §700.2303 adopted to be effective March 1, 2004, 29 TexReg 1416; amended to be effective October 15, 2015, 40 TexReg 7105

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