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DeafBlind Services

Overview

The Michigan Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP) provides DeafBlind services that support vocational rehabilitation, transition services for high school students and independent living consultations to customers who are legally blind and have moderate to profound hearing loss. 

BSBP provides DeafBlind services statewide to all BSBP Program eligible participants.

Definitions

Legally Blind: Central acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with corrections, or the field of vision is restricted to 20 degrees or less

Exception to Legal Blindness: A visual acuity with best correction 20/100 or worse in the better eye with a prognosis of rapid deterioration or visual fields that subtend an angle of less than 40 degrees in each eye with a prognosis of rapid deterioration.

Moderate Hearing Loss:  An individual with chronic hearing impairment so severe that most speech cannot be understood with optimum amplification or a progressive hearing loss with a prognosis leading to this condition.

Profound Hearing Loss: An individual who has a moderate hearing impairment as defined above that causes extreme difficulty in attaining independence in daily life activities, achieving psychosocial adjustment, or obtaining a vocation.

Services

Services that may be provided include: 

Training 

Consultation 

Job placement services 

Transition services and college accommodations  

In-service presentations to groups 

Business services 

Employment  

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