A-13.3, r. 1 - Regulation respecting financial assistance for education expenses

Section 47 Disposition versions

2024-05-02

47. Any deficiency that results in significant and persistent disability despite the means used to palliate it and that causes the student to encounter serious obstacles in pursuing full-time studies and in potentially entering the labour market is a major functional deficiency.

O.C. 344-2004, s. 47; O.C. 699-2024, s. 5.

2012-09-01

47. The following are major functional deficiencies:

(1)  severe visual deficiency: visual acuity in each eye, after correction by means of appropriate ophthalmic lenses, excluding special optical systems and additions greater than 4.00 dioptres, is not more than 6/21, or the field of vision in each eye is less than 60 degrees in the 180-degree and 90-degree meridians and, in either case, the person is unable to read, write or move about in a familiar environment;

(2)  severe hearing deficiency: the ear having the greater hearing capability is affected by a hearing deficiency evaluated, according to American National Standards Institute Standards S3.6-1989, to be an average of at least 70 decibels, in aerial conduction, on any of the 500, 1,000 or 2,000 Hertzian frequencies;

(3)  a motor deficiency, if it results in significant and persistent limitations for the student in the performance of his or her daily activities: loss, malformation or abnormality in the skeletal, muscular or neurological systems responsible for body motion; and

(4)  an organic deficiency, if it results in significant and persistent limitation for the student in the performance of his or her daily activities: disorder or abnormality in the internal organs forming part of the cardiorespiratory, gastrointestinal and endocrinal systems.

O.C. 344-2004, s. 47.