Pediatric Vision Services

Vision Services

Provide screening, assessment and evaluation of functional vision skills; provide treatment to enhance use of residual vision and adaptive abilities for the visually impaired. Specialized instruction to strengthen a child’s visual efficiency, compensatory skill practice, and communication skill practice, which may involve the use of modified materials and equipment such as large print or Braille, slant boards or light boxes.

What is a Visual Disability?

A visual disability is a physical disability that manifests itself in reduced visual efficiency due to disorders pertaining to the organ of the eye, and/or the cortex of the brain.

Categories of Visual Disabilities

• Partially Sighted: Visual impairment that adversely affects a student’s educational performance even when corrected to the best extent possible.
• Low Vision: A visual acuity that is between 20/70 to 20/160 and cannot be corrected.
• Legal Blindness: A visual acuity that is 20/200 to 20/400, or visual fields of 20 degrees or less.
• Blindness: Lack of perceivable light perception.

The Teacher for the Blind and Visually Impaired focuses on the educational impact of visual disabilities on a student’s processing of their surroundings, and on tasks appropriate to their age and development.