---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1684"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1684"
heading: "Blindness or visual impairment; prohibition against discrimination"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1684"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Discrimination Based on Sex or Blindness"
---

# §1684. Blindness or visual impairment; prohibition against discrimination


No person in the United States shall, on the ground of blindness or severely impaired vision, be denied admission in any course of study by a recipient of Federal financial assistance for any education [program or activity](/usc/20/1687.md), but nothing herein shall be construed to require any such institution to provide any special services to such person because of his blindness or visual impairment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 904, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)