Blind And Deaf Triplets
As a result the dunn triplets lost their hearing around two years old making them the first deaf blind triplets.
Blind and deaf triplets. Tests show they have normal intelligence but sensory deprivation has severely delayed their development. This is the story of a woman named liz hooker who was blessed with identical triplets but she had a challenge as her kids were both hearing and visually challenged. The world s only deaf blind triplets are seven years old.
Apparently medications the triplets received in the nicu to treat sepsis damaged the hair cells on the cochlea. They are deaf from ototoxic drugs and blind due to the retinopathy of prematurity but they had no cognitive impairments beyond developmental delay. The dunn triplets zoe sophie and emma born april 30 2000 are the world s only known deafblind triplets.
When the girls were turning 5 years old their parents discussed their life as a family living with these challenges. They are all deaf and blind because of their extremely premature birth and first few months of life. Emma sophie and zoe dunn are triplets born premature in 2000.
