68-12-102 - Chapter definition. - Tennessee Statutes

68-12-102. Chapter definition.

For the purposes of this chapter, a “physically handicapped or crippled child” is one under twenty-one (21) years of age who is deemed “chronically handicapped” by any reason of physical infirmity, whether congenital or acquired, as a result of accident, or disease, that requires medical, surgical, or dental treatment and rehabilitation, and who is or may be totally or partially incapacitated for the receipt of a normal education or for self-support.

     (1)  This definition does not include those children whose sole diagnosis is blindness or deafness; nor does this definition include children who are diagnosed as psychotic.

     (2)  This definition does not prohibit children's special services from accepting for treatment children with acute conditions such as, but not necessarily limited to, fractures, burns and osteomyelitis.

[Acts 1929, ch. 60, § 2; Code 1932, § 4748; Acts 1951, ch. 44, § 1; 1961, ch. 41, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 53-1902.]