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.