![]() ![]() Sometimes those rosy faces he loves to draw are actually lime green. For instance, he can tell you the fire truck is red, but if you ask him to draw a picture of it, he could easily choose a brown crayon.Īndrew made me a Valentine with a beautiful heart colored with forest green. ![]() But those obstacles seemed to pale in comparison to the extremely color-oriented world that Andrew was going to face in kindergarten.Īndrew can usually recognize a vibrant red or green but not lighter or duller hues. And he occasionally needed some immediate assistance in determining the color of a traffic light. He was restricted from choosing paint colors. Very few publications were written in layman’s terms, addressing the day-to-day issues of the colorblind. Traveling through libraries, bookstores and the Internet, I tried to extract practical information from the maze of scientific books and articles. I began to learn more about color blindness. I wanted to know if Andrew would be at a disadvantage when he started kindergarten. Were an integral part of the early education curriculum. From my experience with my two older children, colors I was relieved to know that Andrew had a seemingly minor vision problem, and not a learning deficit but I wasn’t sure it didn’t matter. When they were finished, the doctor informed me that Andrew was red-green color deficient, or colorblind.Īs I was trying to remember all the questions I wanted to ask, he was saying, “It doesn’t matter. These shapes would apparently not be visible to the colorblind. The optometrist showed my four-year-old a book of pictures with shapes. Our pediatrician didn’t have a color vision test, and referred me to an optometrist. “Now that you mention it, that could be it.” “Do you think he could be colorblind?” I asked his teacher. This is a guest article by Karen Levine, she is the author of the book All About Color Blindness: A Guide to Color Vision Deficiency for Kids (and Grown-ups Too). Were these signs of a learning disability, or was it something else? I was already concerned that he couldn’t always identify colors correctly. When my son Andrew was four years old his pre-school teacher told me that he was having trouble understanding simple patterns. Guest Article: A Mother’s Journey into Colorblindness ![]()
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