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  2. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    Legally blind indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye after best correction (contact lenses or glasses), or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees in the better eye. Totally blind students learn via braille or other non-visual media.

  3. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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    The largest letter on an eye chart often represents an acuity of 6/60 (20/200), the value that is considered "legally blind" in the US. Many individuals with high myopia cannot read the large E without glasses, but can read the 6/6 (20/20) line or 6/4.5 (20/15) line with glasses. By contrast, legally blind individuals have a visual acuity of 6/ ...

  4. A new surgery can give legally blind people 20/20 vision - AOL

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    By Nathan Rousseau Smith, Buzz60. Eyesight is arguably one of the most devastating senses a person can lose, and damaging it is all too common. According to the CDC, 3.4 million Americans aged 40 ...

  5. Special rules apply for people who are blind or have low vision (vision in both eyes is 20/200 or worse). For example, legally blind people can earn up to $2,590 per month and still receive benefits.

  6. Visual acuity - Wikipedia

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    A reference value above which visual acuity is considered normal is called 6/6 vision, the USC equivalent of which is 20/20 vision: At 6 metres or 20 feet, a human eye with that performance is able to separate contours that are approximately 1.75 mm apart. [9] Vision of 6/12 corresponds to lower performance, while vision of 6/3 to better ...

  7. Jake Gyllenhaal Says Being Legally Blind Has Been ... - AOL

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    Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about how being legally blind has impacted his career. ... Gyllenhaal, who has 20/1250 vision, explained that he did so in order to listen more closely while shooting.

  8. Legally blind - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 19 August 2015, at 14:42 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Blind hockey is changing the lives of the visually impaired ...

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    In 2015, researchers from the National Eye Institute estimated that 1 million Americans were legally blind (20/200 vision or worse), 3.2 million had visual impairment (20/40 vision or worse) and ...