If the California Children’s Service medical therapy unit conference team, based on a medical referral recommending medically necessary occupational or physical therapy in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 7575 of the Government Code, finds that a handicapped child, as defined in Section 123830, needs medically necessary occupational or physical therapy, that child shall be determined to be eligible for therapy services. If the California Children’s Services medical consultant disagrees with the determination of eligibility by the California Children’s Services medical therapy unit conference team, the medical consultant shall communicate with the conference team to ask for further justification of its determination, and shall weigh the conference team’s arguments in support of its decision in reaching his or her own determination.
This section shall not change eligibility criteria for the California Children’s Services programs as described in Sections 123830 and 123860.
This section shall not apply to children diagnosed as specific learning disabled, unless they otherwise meet the eligibility criteria of the California Children’s Services.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 28, Sec. 5. (AB 1494) Effective June 27, 2012.)