[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45 Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR1308.13]



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                        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.