(52) Recreational therapy--A type of therapy involving
recreational or leisure activities that assist in the restoration,
remediation, or rehabilitation of a person's level of functioning
and independence in life activities, and that promote health and wellness
and reduce or eliminate the activity limitations associated with traumatic
brain injury, traumatic spinal cord injury, or both.
(53) Rehabilitation technology--Equipment or technology
designed to help persons with disabilities perform tasks that would
otherwise require assistance.
(54) Room and board--Shelter, facilities and food,
including the customary and usual diets in residential settings and
prescribed nutritional meals or supplements.
(55) Service arrays--A set of services provided to
eligible persons who have a traumatic brain injury, traumatic spinal
cord injury, or both; services are based on assessed individualized
rehabilitation needs that consist of outpatient services, inpatient
comprehensive medical rehabilitation services, post-acute brain injury
services, and post-acute spinal cord injury services.
(56) Speech-language pathology--The application of
nonmedical principles, methods, and procedures for measurement, testing,
evaluation, prediction, counseling, habilitation, rehabilitation,
or instruction related to the development and disorders of communication,
including speech, voice, language, oral pharyngeal function, or cognitive
processes, for the purpose of evaluating, preventing, or modifying
or offering to evaluate, prevent, or modify those disorders and conditions
in an individual or a group, consistent with the Occupations Code.
(57) Texas resident--A person who lives in Texas as
evidenced by one of the following unexpired documents: a Texas driver's
license, an identification card with an address issued by a governmental
entity, a utility bill with an address, a voter registration card,
a vehicle registration receipt, or other document approved by the
Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services.
(58) Third-party payer--A company, organization, insurer,
or government agency other than DARS that makes payment for goods
and services provided to a consumer.
(59) Transportation--Travel and related expenses.
(60) Traumatic brain injury (TBI)--An injury to the
brain that is not degenerative or congenital; and caused by an external
physical force, which may produce a diminished or altered state of
consciousness, resulting in temporary or permanent impairment of cognitive
abilities and/or physical functioning, and partial or total functional
disability and/or psychosocial maladjustment.
(61) Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)--An acute,
traumatic lesion of neural elements in the spinal canal resulting
in any degree of temporary or permanent sensory or motor deficit,
and/or bladder or bowel dysfunction.
(62) Vision services--A sequence of neurosensory and
neuromuscular activities individually prescribed and monitored by
the doctor to develop, rehabilitate, and enhance visual skills.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §352.5 adopted to be effective September 1, 2015, 40 TexReg 5346; amended to be effective March 13, 2016, 41 TexReg 1713; transferred effective January 15, 2022, as published in the December 31, 2021 issue of the Texas Register, 46 TexReg 9422 |