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An area of southern Louisiana known as Acadiana has "the world's second-largest concentration of people who became deaf-blind due to Usher syndrome. Lynn Blanchard, executive director of the Affiliated Blind of Louisiana Training Center, said about 300 Louisiana people are deaf-blind because of that genetic condition." The Sacramento Bee has more "cajun country" and the devices used to help the deaf-blind there. Read the story
here.
