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Disability Benefits For Residents of Ontario With Vision Disorders

Ontario offers disability benefits to all those employees that satisfy the Province’s definition of legally blind. Injury Lawyer in Waterloo knows that Ontario also offers disability benefits to those employees with a visual impairment.

What is Ontario’s definition of legally blind?

That is someone whose level of vision in the best eye falls below 20/200, even with the help of contact lenses or glasses. The same individual can see no more than the 20 feet in front of his or her face. Note that the low level of vision must be present in the person’s best eye. Someone who is blind in one eye does not meet Ontario’s definition of legally blind.

What is Ontario’s definition for a vision impairment?

That is a vision disorder that causes a person’s level of vision to fall below 20/20. If the same impairment/disorder allows the affected man or woman to qualify as legally blind, then that same individual has the right to request disability benefits.

Those benefits get delivered on a monthly basis. The recipient must be someone that is unable to work, in this instance, due to a vision problem. Any employees in Ontario that hope to convince the provincial government that they cannot work must take a vision test. The government uses the results of that test, when determining whether or not a given worker should be receiving disability benefits.

What actions can a worker take, if he or she has poor vision, but is not legally blind?

Any workers that fall into that category have the right to request special accommodations from an employer. Those accommodations should address the worker’s specific problem.

What sorts of vision problems might push an employee to request special accommodations?

• The inability to process written material. A dyslexic employee might exhibit the inability to process written material. Some dyslexics demand a greater amount of time, in order to process written material that others could read and understand in a shorter space of time.
• Low vision. In any office or workplace setting, there are bound to be several workers that must wear glasses or contact lenses. Those that need very strong glasses/lenses, but not as strong as the worker that has 20/200 vision would fall into this category.
• Cataracts, Macular degeneration or glaucoma
• Loss of both eyesight and hearing. Someone with that combination of problems would probably need to have someone to act as the eyes and ears. Still, the day may be coming when a robot could fill that role.
• Color blindness; this would probably not include those that are only color poor.
• Blind in only one eye. Obviously, if the good eye weakened, this particular worker might qualify for placement in the same category as those labelled legally blind.