hereditary disease epilepsy, hearing loss, and intellectual disability syndrome Baron Koylass EHLMRS Epilepsy, hearing loss, and intellectual disability syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by severe neurologic impairment including intellectual disability, intractable epilepsy, microcephaly, abnormal muscle tone, and sensorineural hearing loss. Most affected individuals are nonambulatory, cannot sit unassisted, and have no speech development. More variable features include feeding difficulties, poor growth, cortical visual impairment, spasticity, scoliosis, immunodeficiency, and thrombocytopenia. OMIM:616577