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attendance (62% vs. 71%1, significantty lower rates of kindergarten readiness (24% vs. 56%), and higher <br />rates of discipline (6%vs.2%7. tt <br />SERVICES <br />The Washington State Department of Social and <br />Heatth Services, Developmentat Disabitities <br />Administration (DDA) provides funding to counties <br />for employment and other support services for <br />peopte with developmentaI disabitities. Etigibitity <br />for services is determined by DDA and is based on <br />Washington State residency, evidence of a <br />quatifying developmentat disabitity that began <br />before age 18, and evidence of substantial <br />limitations. DDA's casetoad has increased by an <br />average of 3.66% per year over the past few years <br />and their biennial budget has grown from 52.57 <br />bittion in2015-2017 to 55.32 bittion in 2023-2025. tn <br />2023, Washington State had nearly 15,000 people <br />with devetopmentaI disabitities who qualified for <br />services but didn't receive them due to lack of <br />state funding (no-paid services casetoad). That's <br />aboul2T% of att peopte on the DDA caseload.ls <br />Revised Code of Washington (RCW) <br />The Revised Code of Washington <br />71A. 1 0.020(5) defines a devetopmental <br />disabitity as: "a disabitity attributable to <br />intettectual disabitity, cerebraI palsy, <br />epilepsy, autism, or another neurological or <br />other condition of an individual found by the <br />secretary to be closely retated to an <br />intetlectuat disabitity or to require treatment <br />simitar to that required for individuals with <br />inteltectuaI disabilities, which originates <br />before the individual attains age eighteen, <br />which has continued or can be expected to <br />continue indefinitety, and which constitutes a <br />substantiat limitation to the individuat. " <br />There are 53 children and 186 adutts in Kittitas County currently enrotted in DDA. Sixty-three <br />individuats are on the no-paid caseload, or26%. \n2023, Kittitas Countyserved 35 individuats in <br />individuaI employment services and 42 individuats in community inctusion services.le <br />17 (Washington State Office of Superintendent of Pubtic tnstruction 2024) <br />18 (Washington State Devetopmentat Disabitities Administration 2023) <br />1e (Washington State Devetopmentat Disabitities Administration 2023) <br />12