Visual impairments : determining eligibility for social security benefits / Peter Lennie and Susan B. Van Hemel, editors ; Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Visual Impairments, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lennie, Peter.

Van Hemel, Susan B.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Disability Determination for Individuals with Visual Impairments.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision disorders--Diagnosis.

Vision disorders.

People with visual disabilities--Evaluation.

People with visual disabilities.

Disability evaluation--United States.

Disability evaluation.

Social security--United States.

Social security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1 INTRODUCTION

2 TESTS OF VISUAL FUNCTIONS

3 VISUAL TASK PERFORMANCE

4 ASSESSMENT OF VISION IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

REFERENCES

Appendix A EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Appendix B PUBLIC FORUM ON VISUAL DISABLILITY DETERMINATION METHODS AND ISSUES

Appendix C GLOSSARY OF SOCIAL SECURITY TERMS RELATED TO DISABILITY

Appendix D BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-274) and index.

ISBN:

0-309-16982-8

1-280-18442-6

9786610184422

0-309-50667-0

OCLC:

923255520