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Peer reviewedFillman, Robyn D.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1987
A screening program for vision problems and Usher's Syndrome (a common cause of deaf-blindness) among 210 hearing-impaired students found 44 percent had significant vision problems and 1 percent had Usher's Syndrome. The program involved an interagency network of school, health care, and support personnel and utilized a dilated ophathalmological…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments
