Section 218-RICR-50-00-2.4 - DEFINITIONSA. For the purpose of these regulations, the following terms have the following meanings: 1. "Agency" means the Office of Rehabilitation Services/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired (SBVI).2. "Applicant" means an individual who is referred or applies seeking services.3. "Deaf-Blindness" means there is the presence of both the following conditions: a. Deafness - a physiological chronic hearing impairment so severe that most speech cannot be understood through the ear with optimum amplification. The speech discrimination score should be forty percent (40%) or less.b. Blindness - Visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20/200, but the field of vision is constricted to twenty degrees (20deg;) or less.4. "Legal blindness" means any person whose visual acuity is no greater than 20/200 in the better eye, with best correction, or one whose field of vision is restricted to the extent that the widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees (20°).5. "State" means State of Rhode Island.6. "Visually impaired" means one whose visual acuity is better than 20/200 but not better than 20/60 in the best eye with best correction, or whose visual impairment is both progressive and permanent.218 R.I. Code R. 218-RICR-50-00-2.4
Amended effective 6/4/2023