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term care services; (E) access to and use of neuropsychological assessment; (F) status of long-term recovery at five-year intervals; (G) financial and social effects on family; (H) cost associated with services; (2) establish standards and recommendations for improvement of prevention, assessment, treatment, and care of persons with traumatic or acquired brain injury in the state; (3) contract with service providers and qualified entities to carry out the purposes of this section; (4) provide a standardized reporting form for use in gathering data for the registry. (d) In (c) of this section, “service provider” means a public or private entity that provides health education, group shelter, or criminal justice services to individuals in the state. Sec. 47.80.529. Definition. In AS 47.80.500 — 47.80.529, “traumatic or acquired brain injury” means an insult from physical force or internal damage to the brain or its coverings, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, that produces an altered mental state and that results in a decrease in cognitive, behavioral, emotional, or physical functioning. Article 5. General Provisions. Sec. 47.80.900. Definitions. In this chapter, (1) “council” means the Governor's Council on Disabilities and Special Education created by AS 44.29.600; (2) “department” means the Department of Health; (3) “facilities for persons with disabilities” means publicly or privately operated facilities, or specified portions of facilities, designed primarily for the delivery of services to those persons; the term includes residential facilities; (4) “habilitation” means education or training for persons with disabilities to enable them to function better in society; (5) “least restrictive setting” means a residential or other setting for meeting the needs of a person with a disability that requires the least amount of restriction of personal liberty by enabling the person to function in as normal an environment as possible and to live as normally as possible, within the limitations of the disability; (6) “person with a developmental disability” means a person who is experiencing a severe, chronic disability that (A) is attributable to a mental or physical impairment or combination of mental and