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Authority: AS 18.05.010 AS 18.05.030 AS 18.05.040 7 AAC 23.220. Availability of hearing. Upon the presentation of an oral or written request for a hearing, the department will grant a hearing to an applicant whose application or waiver request is not acted upon within 30 days after receipt by the department, or whose application or waiver request is denied in whole or part, or of a child or the parent or guardian of a child whose assistance is reduced or discontinued. (Eff. 6/28/85, Register 94; am 4/4/2013, Register 206) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 18.05.010 AS 18.05.030 AS 18.05.040 Article 3. General Provisions. 7 AAC 23.900. As used in this chapter

(1) “department” means the Department of Health;

(2) “general government contract” means the employment contract described in 7 AAC 78.320(7);

(3) “home-based service” means a program in which a teacher visits the participant’s home on a weekly basis, or as close to weekly as is feasible, and provides an instructional plan for the parent to use until the next visit;

(4) “individualized education” means education provided to a child according to that child’s strengths and weaknesses without regard to the population as a whole;

(5) “mild or moderate developmental delay” means, for a child less than one year of age, a difference between the developmental and chronological ages which is less than one-half of the