The role of genetic counseling in visually impaired adolescents.

The presence of genetic disorders in a high percentage of adolescents with significant visual impairments emphasizes the important role that genetic counseling can play in this population. However, its intended goals have been controversial. Responses to structured interviews about genetic counseling services from three groups of former students from the Kentucky School for the Blind were compared.

Ivemark's "asplenia" syndrome: a single gene disorder.

Congenital heart defects as a group represent a significant proportion of congenital malformations. Most are isolated and multifactorially determined; a relatively small proportion are due to a single gene defect, and result in an increased risk of recurrence among first-degree relatives. We have reported the cases of three male siblings with Ivemark's "asplenia" syndrome to support an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance.

The physician under Public Law 99-457.

Public Law 99-457, enacted in 1986, reauthorizes P.L. 94-142 (the Education of all Handicapped Children's Act of 1975) and extends the mandate of that earlier legislation to all handicapped children ages 3 to 5.