Facts
A inherited syndrome that effects both hearing and vision.
What is Usher Syndrome?
Simultaneously having hearing and visual impairments
What is Dual Sensory Impaired?
A degenerative eye condition of the retina
What is RP or Retina Pigmentosa?
Born deaf with a profound hearing loss with a corner audiogram.
What is Type I?
This county currently has five students who are DSI.
What is Pinellas County?
This percent of students will have a vision issue by the end of high school.
What is 50%?
Is the layer of tissue at the back of the inner eye that converts light images to nerve signals and sends them to the brain.
What is the Retina?
Tunnel vision becomes pronounced in the 20s.
Type III
Rebecca Alexander has this type of Usher Syndrome.
What is Type III?
Dual Sensory state reporting code.
What is O?
Are responsible for processing color and fine details, and for daytime vision
What are cones?
Born with good hearing or a mild hearing loss which progresses over a decade or more to a more significant loss?
What is Type III?
Usually this type of vision is lost first in Usher syndrome
What is peripherial vision?
New research indicates that 7-11% of babies born with this medical impairment have Usher syndrome
What is congenital hearing loss?
Individuals with RP often experience a ring of vision loss in their periphery.
What is tunnel vision?
Night blindness begins in the teens. Tunnel vision begins in the late teens into early adulthood.
What is Type II?
Students whose audiogram shows a unilateral hearing loss.
Who do not qualify for Usher Screening?
Conducts an annual census of children ages birth through age 22 who have both a vision loss and a hearing loss.
What is The Florida and Virgin Islands Deaf-Blind Collaborative (FAVI)?
Is similar to the experience of what a normally sighted individual encounters when entering a dark movie theatre on a bright, sunny day?
What is night blindness?
Tunnel vision begins by age 16.
What is Type I?