Full article available from The Orcadian newspaper https://orcadian.co.uk/we-deserve-to-be-happy-and-enjoy-our-lives/ A Kirkwall Grammar School teacher who was born deaf and later began to lose her sight has shared how her experience pushed her to become an advocate for the deafblind community. Julie Ferguson was dignosed with Usher Syndrome — a rare genetic disorder which causes vision loss, hearing loss and, sometimes, balance issues — at the age of 21. “I was devastated,”