Aging and Disability Services Council Sharon Swift Butterworth ...

(B) the prevailing wage paid to individuals without disabilities for performing the same or
similar work.
(17) Continued family services--Services provided to an individual 18 years of age or older
who resides with a support family, as described in §45.531 of this chapter (relating to Support
Family Requirements), that allow the individual to reside successfully in a community setting by
training the individual to acquire, retain, and improve self-help, socialization, and daily living
skills or assisting the individual with ADLs. The individual must be receiving support family
services immediately before receiving continued family services. Continued family services
consist of services described in §45.533 of this chapter (relating to Support Family Duties).
(18) DADS--The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services.
(19) Denial--An action taken by DADS that:
(A) rejects an individual's request for enrollment into the CLASS Program;
(B) disallows a CLASS Program service requested on an IPC that was not authorized on
the prior IPC; or
(C) disallows a portion of the amount or level of a CLASS Program service requested on
an IPC that was not authorized on the prior IPC.
(20) Dental treatment--A service that:
(A) consists of the following:
(i) emergency dental treatment, which is procedures necessary to control bleeding, relieve
pain, and eliminate acute infection; operative procedures that are required to prevent the
imminent loss of teeth; and treatment of injuries to the teeth or supporting structures;
(ii) routine preventative dental treatment, which is examinations, x-rays, cleanings, sealants,
oral prophylaxes, and topical fluoride applications;
(iii) therapeutic dental treatment, which includes fillings, scaling, extractions, crowns, pulp
therapy for permanent and primary teeth; restoration of carious permanent and primary teeth;
maintenance of space; and limited provision of removable prostheses when masticatory function
is impaired, when an existing prosthesis is unserviceable, or when aesthetic considerations
interfere with employment or social development;
(iv) orthodontic dental treatment, which is procedures that include treatment of retained
deciduous teeth; cross-bite therapy; facial accidents involving severe traumatic deviations; cleft
palates with gross malocclusion that will benefit from early treatment; and severe, handicapping
malocclusions affecting permanent dentition with a minimum score of 26 as measured on the
Handicapping Labio-lingual Deviation Index; and
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