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WHOLE BODY IMPAIRMENT DUE TO VISION LOSS

The eye with the lower percentage impairment is considered the better eye and the one with the higher impairment is the poorer.

a. Multiply the percentage impairment of the better eye by 3

b. To this, add the percentage impairment of the poorer eye

c. Divide the sum of a. and b. by 4. This result is the percentage

Impairment of the visual system. (Round fractions to the nearest whole number, rounding up and down from the midpoint.)The percentage of impairment of the visual system is translated to the percentage of impairment of the whole body by using the following table.

 
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