Article 32. Rehabilitation and habilitation of persons with disabilities

The purpose of rehabilitating persons with disabilities shall be to restore their social status and abilities to self-care and various types of professional activity, enabling them to lead a full-fledged life and to exercise their rights and potential opportunities.

The state shall guarantee the medical, social, vocational, and physical rehabilitation and habilitation of persons with disabilities in state institutions.

Medical rehabilitation shall mean a set of medical services, aimed at the preservation and partial or full restoration of impaired and/or lost functions of organs and body systems of the persons with disabilities.

Social rehabilitation shall mean a set of measures aimed at creating the conditions for persons with disabilities to overcome limitations on their vital activities, restore their social status, the possibility of self-care and independent living, and their return to habitual conditions of family life in society.

Vocational rehabilitation shall mean a set of measures aimed at providing vocational guidance, vocational training, and employment for persons with disabilities, as well as restoring their lost vocational knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical rehabilitation shall mean the restoration (correction and compensation) of impaired or temporarily lost functions of the body and abilities to engage in social and vocational activity by persons with disabilities through the use of means and methods of physical culture and sports.

Rehabilitation and habilitation of disabled persons shall be organized in compliance with an individual disabled person rehabilitation program.

Habilitation shall mean a set of medical, social, pedagogical, psychological, and other correctional measures, aimed at the development of absent (innate) and (or) undeveloped functions of the body for adaptation to life in society.

Habilitation services shall include medico-social, psychological, pedagogical, and other correctional services provided to children at risk.

Children at risk shall mean children under the age of three who are at high risk of physical and/or mental retardation in the absence of early intervention and necessary medical, social, psychological, pedagogical, or other correctional support.

Habilitation services shall be provided by medico-social organizations, as well as specialized organizations for the provision of medico-social services, regardless of their organizational and legal status.