(a) Each client must have an individual program plan developed by an interdisciplinary team that represents the professions, disciplines, or service areas that are relevant to:

1. (1) Identifying the client's needs, as described by the comprehensive functional assessments required in 20 CAR § 413-727(c); and
2. (2) Designing programs that meet the client's needs.

(b)

1. (1) Appropriate facility staff must participate in interdisciplinary team meetings.
2. (2) Participation by other agencies serving the client is encouraged.
3. (3) Participation by the client, his or her parent if the client is a minor, or the client's legal guardian is required unless that participation is unobtainable or inappropriate.

(c)

1. (1) Within thirty (30) days after admission, the interdisciplinary team must perform accurate assessments or reassessments as needed to supplement the preliminary evaluation conducted prior to admission.

2. (2) The comprehensive functional assessment must take into consideration the client’s age (for example, child, young adult, elderly person) and the implications for active treatment at each stage, as applicable, and must:

   1. (A) Identify the presenting problems and disabilities and, where possible, their causes;
   2. (B) Identify the client's specific developmental strengths;
   3. (C) Identify the client's specific developmental and behavioral management needs;
   4. (D) Identify the client's need for services without regard to the actual availability of the services needed; and
   5. (E) Include physical development and health, nutritional status, sensorimotor development, affective development, speech and language development and auditory functioning, cognitive development, social development, adaptive behaviors or independent living skills necessary for the client to be able to function in the community, and, as applicable, vocational skills.

(e) These objectives must be:

1. (1) Stated separately, in terms of a single behavioral outcome;
2. (2) Assigned projected completion dates;
3. (3) Expressed in behavioral terms that provide measurable indices of performance;
4. (4) Organized to reflect a developmental progression appropriate to the individual; and
5. (5) Assigned priorities.

(f) Each written training program designed to implement the objectives in the individual program plan must specify:

1. (1) The methods to be used;
2. (2) The schedule for the use of the method;
3. (3) The person responsible for the program;
4. (4) The type of data and frequency of data collection necessary to be able to assess progress toward the desired objectives;
5. (5) The inappropriate client behavior or behaviors if applicable; and
6. (6) Provision for the appropriate expression of behavior and the replacement of inappropriate behavior, if applicable, with behavior that is adaptive or appropriate.

(g) The individual program plan must also:

1. (1) Describe relevant interventions to support the individual toward independence;
2. (2) Identify the location where progress strategy information, which must be accessible to any person responsible for implementation, can be found;
3. (3) Include, for those clients who lack them, training in personal skills;

4. (4)

   1. (A) Identify mechanical supports, if needed, to achieve proper body:

(i) Position;

1. (ii) Balance; or

   1. (iii) Alignment.
   2. (B) The plan must specify the reason for each support, the situations in which each is to be applied, and a schedule for the use of each support; and
2. (5) Include opportunities for client choice and self-management.

(h) A copy of each client's individual program plan must be made available to all relevant staff, including staff of other agencies who work with the client, and to the:

1. (1) Client;
2. (2) Parents, if client is a minor; or
3. (3) Legal guardian.