Women who carry the colorblindness gene have a 50/50 shot of giving it to their sons, I think. Is color blindness in your family? Are your father or any of your uncles colorblind? I only ask because color blindness passes from the mother to her children, mostly to her sons. I hope it isn't color-blindness - please update if you find out anything! God bless! I noticed that my last 2 learned colors quicker than my others after using this kind of association.Īll children are different, and learn at different paces, so give him some time and don't make him fit into a sterotype :) I think it helped them see the colors in their head to make an association. When I picked up their clean shirt for the day, I would say 'what color is this? and if they seemed stumped, I would say 'it looks just like the grass' and they would say with excitment 'green like the grass'. When they would see a red firetruck, they would answer that it was 'red like an apple', or a yellow cup would get the answer 'yellow like a banana.' I took 10 familiar object and worked on their colors, and then they were the reference for everything else. With my last 2 children, I teach them colors associated with familiar objects. Maybe your son justs needs another year before he has a grasp on all those types of things.Just an opinion :)
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At a young age, I would think that it's hard to imagine that there are so many answers for one unchanging thing. You ask a question about an object, and they have to know if you're asking what it is, or what shape, or what texture, or what color, or what sound it makes, or what it is used for. I don't know anything about color-blindness.īut maybe it's the way you're teaching about colors that your son finds uninteresting and he's just a little behind in picking up on color names? I think it's a hard concept for some kids. Michaelangelo (sp) was what we call color blind and did very well. This could be the problem and why he is settling more on shape than color at this point. And sometimes fresh oranges are still greenish. Some grapefruit have a orangish cast as well. Tangelos and Tangerines are also orange and tast similiar. So you show him and Orange, tell him it is round, let him taste the orange and now he knows what it tastes like and then you tell him it is orange and he settles on the shape instead of the color. This might be an area he just doesn't want to handle at this point. He counts and is recognizing and identifying some shapes, might just be on overload since he is still learning the language we speak and the meaning of different words and how to use them as well. I would think, and I could be wrong, that he is too young to be tested and if he just turned 3 you are worrying too much at this point. in the military and an officer in the Sheriff's Dept. Didn't stop my grandfather from being a landscape artist whose paintings sold very well or my brother from being a Lt. My grandfather had problems with greens/blues and my brother has problems with anything in the red family save purples. Most people who are color blind only have problems with a few of the colors/blends not all of them. We have not had our appointment yet but I can let you know. So, I called our eye doctor and they can do a test on them at age 3 1/2 so they can probably check your son as well. They couldn't even see it when I took my finger over the shape to tell them where it was. Then I did find a toddler color blind test on the internet, if I find the website I will email it to you, it has shapes instead of numbers, and they could find all the shapes except the brown shapes in the green background. What clued me in to my sons was one day they got a dark green and dark brown article of clothing and got excited because they were the same color. Well, a dark color and a light color are not going to look the same to him so he is going to be able to sort them out. The pipe cleaners were a dark hunter green from what I could tell of the pictures, and almost a tan.
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However in the case of the pipe cleaners, the two colors I think they have trouble with are browns and greens. He may just not care yet to know them if he is working on shapes and counting. I told my boys teachers that I was getting suspicious of this and they had them sort different colored pipe cleaners at school, which would give you the first idea that your son is getting that their are different colors. Like orange and red sometimes look alike, but if you have a bright orange and a dull red, he can see that. There are just a few colors he mixes up, and it is mostly a hue thing. I did not realize this is the only reason I mention this, because I was unsure of it before talking to the uncle. Just because your are colorblind does not mean you see black and white. They have a colorblind uncle, so I have had the opportunity to ask him a lot of questions about it. My twins are going to be 4 in February, and I am suspecting the same thing.