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§ 13-37-29 Blind student defined for purposes of braille literary assessment and educational services.

SD Codified L § 13-37-29 (2019) (N/A)
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13-37-29. Blind student defined for purposes of braille literary assessment and educational services. For the purposes of § 13-37-30, a blind student is any individual who is eligible for special education services and who has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses or has a limited field of vision such that the widest diameter subtends an angular distance of no greater than twenty degrees or has a medically indicated expectation of visual deterioration.

For the purposes of § 13-37-30, braille is the system of reading and writing through touch commonly known as standard English braille.

Source: SL 1991, ch 152, § 1.

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