title: Congenital rubella syndrome and delayed manifestations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Several hypotheses of different medical and psychological delayed manifestations among people who have congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) have been discussed. This study tests some of these hypotheses of delayed manifestations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Gathering information about 35 individuals who have CRS and who are congenitally deafblind.
  
  
  RESULTS
  None of the hypotheses could be confirmed when individuals with CRS were compared to a control group of individuals who were congenital deafblind with different aetiology than CRS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study concludes that those health related problems which people with CRS face must primarily be understood in relation to congenital deafblindness and dual sensory and communicative deprivation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. jesper.dammeyer@psy.ku.dk
authors.forename: Jesper
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dammeyer
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D012410:Rubella Syndrome, Congenital / Q000150:complications*