IFDDS Waiver Program
Individual & Family Developmental Disabilities Support Waiver
Also known as: DD WAIVER
What is a IFDDS Waiver?
The Individual and Family Developmental Disabilities Support Waiver (IFDDS), or the DD Waiver, is a Medicaid program that provides home and community-based care services to Medicaid eligible individuals who would otherwise be eligible for placement in an Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR). The goal of the waiver is to allow consumers and their families more consumer-direction over deciding what services they need and who will provide those services.
A related condition is a severe chronic disability, closely related to mental retardation/intellectual disability because this condition results in impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive behavior, one which manifested before the person reaches age 22, likely to continue indefinitely and results in functional limitation in 2 or more following categories: health status, communication, task learning skills, personal/self care, mobility, behavior, and community living skills. Examples of related conditions may include but not limited to cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, asperger’s disorder, shaken baby syndrome, autism, spina bifida and epilepsy.
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