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attendance (62%vs.71%1, significantly lower rates of kindergarten readiness (24%vs.56%), and higher <br />rates of disciptine (6o/ovs. 2%7. tt <br />SERVICES <br />The Washington State Department of Socia[ 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 disabilities. 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 />[imitations. DDA's casetoad has increased by an <br />average of 3.66o/" 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 in2023-2025.|n <br />2023, Washington State had nearty 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 />about 27% of atl people on the DDA caseload.ls <br />Revised Code of Washington (RCW) <br />The Revised Code of Washington <br />7 1 A.10.020(5) defines a devetopmental <br />disabitity as: "a disabitity attributable to <br />intetlectuaI disability, cerebral palsy, <br />epilepsy, autism, or another neurologicaI or <br />other condition of an individuat found by the <br />secretary to be ctosety retated to an <br />intetlectual disabitity or to require treatment <br />similar to that required for individuats with <br />intetlectual disabitities, which originates <br />before the individual attains age eighteen, <br />which has continued or can be expected to <br />continue indefinitely, and which constitutes a <br />substantia[ [imitation to the individual. " <br />There are 53 children and 1 86 adults in Kittitas County currentty enrotled in DDA. Sixty-three <br />individuals are on the no-paid casetoad, or 26%. ln 2023, Kittitas County served 35 individuats in <br />individuaI emptoyment services and 42 individuats in community inclusion seryices.le <br />17 (Washington State Office of Superintendent of Pubtic tnstruction 2024) <br />18 (Washington State Developmentat Disabitities Administration 2023) <br />1e (Washington State Devetopmentat Disabitities Administration 2023) <br />12