Anyone who is certified unable to read or use standard printed materials as a result of temporary or permanent visual or physical limitations is eligible for service from LBPD.

Visual and physical limitations include blindness, macular degeneration, paralysis, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, dyslexia, etc.

Qualifying Disabilities

• BLIND: persons whose visual acuity, as determined by competent authority, is 20/200 or less in the better eye with correcting lenses, or whose widest diameter of visual field subtends an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
• DEAF-BLIND: persons with a severe auditory impairment in combination with legal blindness.
• VISUALLY DISABLED: persons who lack visual acuity to read standard printed materials without aids or devices other than regular glasses.
• PHYSICALLY DISABLED: persons who are unable to read or use standard printed materials as a result of physical disability.  Examples include: without arms of the use of arms; impaired or weakened muscle and nerve control; limitations resulting from strokes, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, polio, arthritis.
• READING DISABLED: persons whose reading disability is a result of an organic dysfunction of sufficient severity to prevent reading printed materials in a normal manner (this disability requires the signature of a medical or osteopathic doctor as certifying authority).

Apply for Service

This service is available to individuals and/or institutions (e.g. adult foster care facilities, retirement centers, nursing homes, hospitals, etc.) who have eligible individuals among their regular clientele.  Such individuals are eligible for service in the name of the institution or in his/her own name.

Service to schools is provided directly from the Library of Michigan Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Lansing.

 
 
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