[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1308.13]

[Page 221]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 1308--HEAD START PROGRAM PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ON SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES--Table of Contents
 
            Subpart D--Health Services Performance Standards
 
Sec. 1308.13  Eligibility criteria: Visual impairment including blindness.

    (a) A child is classified as visually impaired when visual 
impairment, with correction, adversely affects a child's learning. The 
term includes both blind and partially seeing children. A child is 
visually impaired if:
    (1) The vision loss meets the definition of legal blindness in the 
State of residence; or
    (2) Central acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with 
corrective lenses, or visual acuity is greater than 20/200, but is 
accompanied by a limitation in the field of vision such that the widest 
diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 
degrees.
    (b) A child is classified as having a visual impairment if central 
acuity with corrective lenses is between 20/70 and 20/200 in either eye, 
or if visual acuity is undetermined, but there is demonstrated loss of 
visual function that adversely affects the learning process, including 
faulty muscular action, limited field of vision, cataracts, etc.