Emmerdale's Laura Norton, 39, and Mark Jordon, 58, have been in tears after learning that both their two-year-old son Jesse and baby daughter Ronnie, who is just a few months old, have inherited the same genetic disorder - Usher Syndrome.
The consequences are that both children face sight loss issues and will be forced to wear hearing aids for the rest of their lives.
The kids will also suffer from peripheral vision loss and tunnel vision as they grow older. Hearing struggles have already begun, but fortunately Jesse's hearing aid has improved his sensory abilities so much that mum Laura has marvelled he can hear aeroplanes approaching in the sky before she can.
Laura and Mark have now revealed all about their rollercoaster journey with the condition in an interview with Hello! magazine.
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