Doctors of medicine, doctors of osteo-pathy, ophthalmologists, optometrists, registered nurses, therapists, professional staff of Blind persons whose visual hospitals, institutions, and public or acuity, as determined by welfare agencies (e.g., social competent authority, is 20/200 or workers, case workers, counselors, less in the better eye with PERSONS rehabilitation teachers, and correcting glasses, or whose superintendents). In the absence of wide diameter if visual field any of these, certification may be subtends an angular distance no made by professional librarians or greater than 20 degrees. by any persons whose competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of Congress. Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical VISUAL DISABILITY measurement, is certified by SAME AS ABOVE competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material. Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or PHYSICAL unable to use standard printed SAME AS ABOVE LIMITATIONS material as a result of physical limitations. Persons certified by competent READING authority as having a reading DISABILITY disability resulting from Doctors of medicine who may RESULTING FROM organic dysfunction and of consult with colleagues in ORGANIC sufficient severity to prevent associated disciplines. DYSFUNCTION reading printed material in a normal manner. The provisions added to IDEA in 2004 regarding the establishment of the NIMAS and the NIMAC built on a 1996 amendment to the U.S. Copyright Act, commonly referred to
PERSONS Blind persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses, or whose wide diameter if visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees. Doctors of medicine, doctors of osteo-pathy, ophthalmologists, optometrists, registered nurses, therapists, professional staff of hospitals, institutions, and public or welfare agencies (e.g., social workers, case workers, counselors, rehabilitation teachers, and superintendents). In the absence of any of these, certification may be made by professional librarians or by any persons whose competence under specific circumstances is acceptable to the Library of Congress. VISUAL DISABILITY Persons whose visual disability, with correction and regardless of optical measurement, is certified by competent authority as preventing the reading of standard printed material. SAME AS ABOVE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS Persons certified by competent authority as unable to read or unable to use standard printed material as a result of physical limitations. SAME AS ABOVE READING DISABILITY RESULTING FROM ORGANIC DYSFUNCTION Persons certified by competent authority as having a reading disability resulting from organic dysfunction and of sufficient severity to prevent reading printed material in a normal manner. Doctors of medicine who may consult with colleagues in associated disciplines. The provisions added to IDEA in 2004 regarding the establishment of the NIMAS and the NIMAC built on a 1996 amendment to the U.S. Copyright Act, commonly referred to
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