If my child has low vision or hearing loss in addition to intellectual disability, would they qualify for IHSS protective supervision?

You should talk about all of your child's conditions at the IHSS home visit if they have multiple disabilities that affect their ability to understand danger around them. One of the examples that that you hear a lot for elderly people is if a person has Alzheimer's or some other cognitive impairment where they don't understand that they're a fall risk, and they can't be climbing stairs, or they can't be getting out of bed, and they but they have forgotten because they don't understand that they're a physical fall risk. That is a situation where they need supervision. The same is true of a child who has a visual or hearing impairment and has a cognitive impairment that makes them not understand the risks involved. You should certainly bring that up at the home visit and talk about that in your documentation.

For more information, see our article about IHSS protective supervision.