HEARING IMPAIRMENT

INCLUDING DEAFNESS


​Hearing loss prevents full awareness of environmental sounds and spoken language, limiting normal language acquisition and learning achievement.


VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

INCLUDING BLINDNESS


​Central visual acuity is 20/70 or worse in the better eye with correction or the peripheral field subtends an angle not greater than 20 degrees at its widest diameter as determined by an optometrist or ophthalmologist.