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DEFINITION : VISUAL IMPAIRMENT - - :: Blind …
CHAPTER IDEFINITION : VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (Expert comments: Ms. Karin van Dijk)New Vision Consultant1. DefinitionIn India, the broad DEFINITION of VISUAL IMPAIRMENT as adoptedin the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protectionof Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 as well as underthe National Programme for Control of blindness (NPCB) isgiven : refers to a condition where a person suffersfrom any of the following conditions, namely:lTotal absence of sight; orlVisual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen)in the better eye even with correction lenses; orlLimitation of the field of vision subtending anangle of 20 degree or deciding the blindness , the VISUAL acuity as well as fieldof vision have been Low Vision: The Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 alsorecognizes low vision as a category of disability and definesit as follows: Person with low vision means a person withimpairment of VISUAL functioning even aftertreatment or standard refractive1correction but who uses or is potentially capableof using vision for the planning or execution ofa task with appropriate assistive device.
is than treated as if he/she is a blind. This ignores the usable vision. There should be a difference between legal blindness and functional blindness or low vision.
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