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Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits
enlarge	Authors: Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Visual Impairments, National Research Council Creators: Peter Lennie, Susan B. Van Hemel Publisher: National Academies Press Category: Book Buy New: $49.00 as of 11/21/2009 15:43 PST details New (8) Used (7) from $38.99 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 368 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7 Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.9 ISBN: 0309083486 Dewey Decimal Number: 617.715 EAN: 9780309083485 ASIN: 0309083486 Publication Date: July 17, 2002 Availability: Usually ships in 6 to 12 days



Editorial Reviews: Product Description The result of a study by the Social Security Administration on the methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments. Recommends changes improving the process, outcomes, and identifies the research needed to develop improved visual disability determination methods. Softcover. DNLM: Vision disorders--Diagnosis. Book Description When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to determine their eligibility. To ensure that these determinations are made fairly and consistently, SSA has developed criteria for eligibility and a process for assessing each claimant against the criteria. Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies research needed to develop improved methods for the future. The report assesses tests of visual function, including visual acuity and visual fields whether visual impairments could be measured directly through visual task performance or other means of assessing disability. These other means include job analysis databases, which include information on the importance of vision to job tasks or skills, and measures of health-related quality of life, which take a person-centered approach to assessing visual function testing of infants and children, which differs in important ways from standard adult tests.

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