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Definition
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Visual Impairment, including blindness, means an impairment in vision that, even with
correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both
partial sight and blindness.
Criteria
A child displays a visual impairment when:
- A visual impairment or a progressive vision loss has been diagnosed by an
optometrist or ophthalmologist: - Visual acuity has been determined to be:
- for visual impairment, of 20/70 to 20/200 in the better eye with best correction
by glasses; - for blindness, of 20/200 or less in the better eye after best correction by glasses
or a visual field measuring 20o or less. - The visual impairment adversely affects the child's educational performance.
- for visual impairment, of 20/70 to 20/200 in the better eye with best correction
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