PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES

(a) The department shall provide assistance to compensate a client for present and future expenses, including:

(1) the purchase or lease of special equipment or architectural modifications of a home to improve or facilitate the care, treatment, therapy, general living conditions, or access of a person with a disability;

(2) medical, surgical, therapeutic, diagnostic, and other health services related to a person's disability or disabilities;

(3) counseling or training programs that assist a family in providing proper care for a family member with a disability or assist a person with a disability in an independent living situation and that provide for the special needs of the family or person with a disability;

(4) attendant care, home health aide services, homemaker services, and chore services that provide support with training, routine body functions, dressing, preparation and consumption of food, and ambulation;

(5) respite support for a family, if the family is the client;

(6) transportation services for the person with a disability; and

(7) transportation, room, and board costs incurred by a family or a person with a disability during evaluation or treatment of a person with a disability that have been preapproved by the department.

(b) The executive commissioner by rule may add services and programs for which the department may provide assistance.