color blindness – For Little Eyes

Colorblindness (or color vision deficiency) and kids

I don’t write about colorblindness in children much, largely because it is not something that can be corrected with glasses or contacts or patches. But it is certainly a component of vision, and a very important one for children (and adults). Recently, a friend contacted me because his son was recently diagnosed as having moderate-to-severeContinue reading “Colorblindness (or color vision deficiency) and kids”

Reader question: color blindness

This question came in from Annie: Is there any way to find out if your child is color blind? Everett is now 2. He can count to 10 in Spanish, he knows his shapes, all kinds of things…but he doesn’t know his colors. It’s really bad – he doesn’t know hardly any of them andContinue reading “Reader question: color blindness”