Blind Deaf Triplets
The world s only deaf blind triplets are seven years old.
Blind deaf triplets. As a result the dunn triplets lost their hearing around two years old making them the first deaf blind triplets. The extraordinary family from houston in the united states featured on dr phil in 2007 where liz spoke of the moment she discovered all three girls were blind. 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.
Emma sophie and zoe dunn are triplets born premature in 2000. Perhaps as a result of this show the hooker family will be able to connect with other families raising children who are deaf blind and adults who are deaf blind. Ollie a lawyer with the u s.
The triplets would soon become blind and then deaf. The triplets were 10 when ollie cantos who is blind came knocking on their door. The dunn triplets remain 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. For a summary of the show go here. The identical triplets are the world s only known.
And apparently they are the only pair of identical triplets who are deafblind at the same time. At four months old liz learned the triplets were blind. Department of education in washington d c had heard about the boys through a.
They are all deaf and blind because of their extremely premature birth and first few months of life. Triplets who are deaf blind. Apparently medications the triplets received in the nicu to treat sepsis damaged the hair cells on the cochlea.
At two years old she learned they were deaf. They are deaf from ototoxic drugs and blind due to the retinopathy of prematurity but they had no cognitive impairments beyond developmental delay. The term deaf blind describes a person who is both partially or fully blind and partially or fully deaf.
Brian hubbard for example is a psychotherapist who happens to be deaf blind and an inspirational speaker as well.
