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Appendix B: Public Forum on Visual Disability Determination Methods and Issues
Pages 322-329

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From page 322...
... A list of all organizations invited to nominate speakers, indicating which ones provided nominations; The questions the committee sent to nominating organizations and to speakers; · A list of speakers, their affiliations, and major topics each addressed; information on where the full text of the speakers' presentations is filed.
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From page 323...
... American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians American Academy of Ophthalmology American Board of independent Medical Examiners American Council of the Blind American Diabetes Association American Foundation for the Blind American Macular Degeneration Foundation American Medical Association American Occupational Therapy Association American Optometric Association Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired Blinded Veterans Association Center for the Partially Sighted Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind Council of Citizens with Low Vision International Foundation Fighting Blindness Glaucoma Foundation 323
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From page 324...
... 324 APPENDIX B Glaucoma Research Foundation Jewish Guild for the Blind lob Accommodation Network Lighthouse International Macular Degeneration Foundation Macular Degeneration Partnership National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired National Association of the Visually Handicapped National Association of Disability Evaluating Professionals National Association of Disability Examiners National Council of State Agencies for the Blind National Federation of the Blind National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Prevent Blindness America Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Now Vision Research to Prevent Blindness Sensory Access Foundation Social Security Administration
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From page 325...
... ? iDT: Disability insurance, under Title IT of the Social Security Act; SST: Supplemental Security income, under Title XVT of the Social Security Act.
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From page 326...
... (Addressed committee questions directly.) August Colenbrander, MD Director, Low Vision Service California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco, CA Presented justification for Functional Vision Score methodology Anne Corn, EdD Professor of Special Education Peabody College of Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN Difficulty otpredicting functional capacity from current tests; desirability of testing function.
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From page 327...
... Robert Massof, PhD Director, Lions Vision Research and Rehabilitation Center, Wilmer Ophthalmological institute Professor of Ophthalmology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD Need to relate vision measures and impaim~ents to real-life functions and methods for doing so; survey on vision requirements for jobs and daily tasks indicating that 20/200 criterion is too strict. Lylas Mogk, MD Henry Ford Health Care System Grosse Pointe, MT Needs for: additional and different measures of visual function and task performance; temporary andpartial disability benepts; coordination of benepts with rehabilitation services.
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From page 328...
... Mary Warren, MS, OTR/L Director, Visual independence Program The Eye Foundation of Kansas City Kansas City, MO Weaknesses of current tests and criteria. Need to measure functional vision, including reading acuity; measure binocularly; consider individual factors in determination.
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From page 329...
... PUBLIC FORUM ON VISUAL DISABILITY DETERMINATION Further information, including the papers submitted by forum participants, is on file at: Public Access Records Office The National Academies 2101 Constitution Avenue NW Room NAS 204 Washington, DC 20418 Tel: (202)
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Key Terms

  • low vision
  • test contrast
  • contrast sensitivity
  • macular degeneration
  • degeneration foundation

  • disability evaluation
  • disability evaluating
  • task performance
  • security act
  • presumptive disability

  • disability determination
  • functional vision
  • nominate speakers
  • visual field
  • organizations invited

  • rehabilitation services
  • predicting functional
  • functional capacity
  • rehabilitation center
  • visual functions

  • consider individual
  • ones provided
  • gainful employment
  • medical listings
  • vision measures

  • lions vision
  • etdrs chart
  • vision testing
  • including reading
  • variables beyond


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