| Usher syndrome - "a genetic disease causing deaf | | | | wrote about the disease when it was unknown, and |
| and blindness." A simple definition. In essence, this | | | | described cases in which there was a clear link |
| disease slowly blinds you by progressive retinis | | | | between congenital deafness and retinis pigmentosa. |
| pigmentosa, as well as ruin your hearing through | | | | This was long ago, and he was ahead of his time, as |
| congenital hearing loss. This particular disease can only | | | | the paper was writtin in 1914. |
| be inherited, and is uncommon becuase it is a | | | | This condition has three seperate types; Usher |
| recessive trait. It can occur in an estimated 1 in 11,000 | | | | Syndrome I, II and III. I is the most unfair, as the child is |
| people. | | | | born almost completely deaf, and eyesight begins to |
| "Usher Syndrome" is not a name which best describes | | | | fail after about age 10. In type II, eyesight does not tend |
| or reflects its signs and symptoms. It was named this | | | | to degrade until later in life, but the child is born hard of |
| becuase of C.H. Usher, a British ophthalmologist. He | | | | hearing. |