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A person may be eligible for services if he or she is experiencing a vision impairment that is affecting his or her normal daily life activities.

VISION IMPAIRED means that with the best correction an individual's vision is 20/70 or less in the better eye. (The person sees at 20 feet what a person without a vision impairment sees at 70 feet.)

LEGALLY BLIND means that with the best correction an individual's vision is 20/200 or less in the better eye. (The person sees at 20 feet what a person without a vision impairment sees at 200 feet.) Also, an individual is considered legally blind if he or she has a restricted visual field limitation of 20 degrees or less. (The person sees 20 degrees of all the objects in their field of vision when a person without a vision impairment would see 180 degrees.)

CBVI services and programs are available to all vision impaired NJ residents without regard to other disabling condition, sex, age, race, nationality or religious and cultural orientation.

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