(a)

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Council appointed under sub-section (3) section 3;

(b)

"Council" means the Rehabilitation Council of India  constituted under section 3;

(c)

"handicapped" means a person-

(i)   visually handicapped;
(ii)  hearing handicapped ;
(iii) suffering from locomotor disability; or
(iv)  suffering from mental retardation;

(d)

"hearing handicapped" means with hearing impairment of 70 decibels and above, in better ear or total loss of hearing in both ears;

(e)

"locomotor disability" means a person's inability to execute distinctive activities associated with moving, both himself and objects from place to place and such inability resulting from affliction of either bones joints muscles or nerves;

(f)

"member" means a member appointed under sub-section (3) of section 3 and includes the Chairperson;

(g)

"Member-Secretary" means the Member-Secretary appointed under sub-section (1) of section 8;

(h)

"mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of person which is specially characterized by sub-normality of intelligence;

(i)

"notification means" a notification published in the Official Gazette;

(j)

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulation; 

(k)

"recognized rehabilitation qualifications" means any of the qualifications included in the Schedule;

(l)

"Register" means the Central Rehabilitation Register maintained under sub-section (1) of section 23;

(m)

"regulation" means regulation made under the Act;  

(n)

"rehabilitation professional" means-

(i) audiologists and speech therapists;
(ii)clinical psychologists;
(iii)hearing aid and ear mould technicians;
(iv) rehabilitation engineers and technicians;
(v)special teachers for educating and training the handicapped;
(vi) vocational counselors, employment officers and placement       officers dealing with handicapped;
(vii) multi-purpose rehabilitation therapists,       technicians;                or
viii)such other category of professionals as the Central      Government may, in consultation with the Council, notify from      time to time;

(o)

"visually handicapped" means a persons who suffers from any of the following conditions namely:-

(i)  total absence of sight;
(ii) visual acquity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200(snellen) in the      better eye with the correcting lenses; or
(iii)limitation of the field of vision subtending and angle of degree      or worse.