VISUALLY IMPAIRED (VI)

Definition

Visually Impaired children are those who have a visual impairment which, even with correction, adversely affects their educational performance and includes:

  1. Blind:  Children who have so little remaining vision that they must use Braille as their reading medium;

  2. Partially Sighted:  Children who have a significant loss of vision but who are able to use regular or large print as their reading medium.  Generally, these children will have a visual acuity between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye after correction;

  3. Legally Blind:  Children have a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye after correction and/or a peripheral field so contracted that the widest diameter subtends an arc no greater than twenty(20) degrees; and

  4. Other severe visual problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DISABILITIES SPED HOMEPAGE