Colour blind toddler?

Question

My 3 year old daughter knows ALL her colours except RED and GREEN.
She has difficulty and cannot answer when I ask her to point to a red or green crayon.

Personally i'm not bothered but all my friends and close family are insisting I go and get her eyes tested.
I took her to the optitions and they won't test her until she is 4 years old.

Do oyou think it is a problem and does anyone have any experience or advice?

No time wasters please!

Answer 1

I have exactly the same situation with my daughter. She is nearly three, quite bright and knows all her colours except green and red. People around me are also insisting she is colour blind and I was beginning to worry. Now I have read your question, I'm thinking maybe these two colours are just harder to learn and recognise then other colours. I'm not going to worry about it now unless it continues, and if so will get it checked out when she is older. My optician did say they would look at it when she is 4 but like you were probably told they don't do it before then. I think you should do the same, just relax and see what happens!

Answer 2

I am in college taking neurosciences courses

Color sight is based on cones in the eye. People have three; red, green, and blue. The genes that lead to these cones are found on the X chromosome. Females are XX, Males XY. The Y chromosome does not have any cones.

Men tend to be color blind more often because they only have one X, and if it is bad, they are color blind. Females have 2 X, so are less likely.

In conception, the mother, who is XX, always gives an X. It is possible that the X she gives is color blind, even if she is not. The father gives X or Y. Since it is a girl, he gave X.

For her to be colorblind, she needs an X from both parents where the X is color blind. If the father is not colorblind, his X is good, and she is not color blind. I am assuming this is so because you made no mention of the father being colorblind, so in all likely hood, she is not colorblind.

Answer 3

I read once that only males can be colour-blind - but I dont know if that's true. Be worth checking out though.
I think my little girl used to confuse those two as well for a while, but just the words not the actual colours.
My Dad is colour blind he sees no colours. If your daughter can see all colours except those two it isnt really that bad, is it?

Answer 4

Ha - I had this same concern with my daughter, who couldn't look to %. up the coloration pink. I even went so a techniques as to locate a baby's coloration-blindness attempt on-line. She picked out the shapes from the coloration-blindness attempt merely superb, and began figuring out pink about per week later. Ethel is ideal - if there is not any longer a historic past of coloration-blindness on your relatives (or her father's relations), it is probable notably unlikely. there are a determination of diverse colors of eco-friendly, and it is demanding to carry close all of it before each and every thing. She's nonetheless notably youthful to even recognize the quantity of hues she will already develop into conscious of. i ought to be keen to wager that she'll %. up 'eco-friendly' in a short time!

Answer 5

I wouldnt listen to anyone else about this. What you think is what is right. When she is 20 no-one will care if she did or didnt know the difference between red/green!!
I would wait till she is 4 and take her back to the opticians, in the meantime dont worry about it.

Answer 6

She may just be confusing the colors. There is very little chance that she is color blind. Those are the two colors that are associated with color blindness.

Answer 7

No she is not color blind. she is confused with both the colors. my son too have the same problem when i asked my pediatrician she told me nothing to worry about it it is the confusion they have normally

Answer 8

Your daughter is not colour blind, only males can be colour blind.

Answer 9

I would try to get her into some sort of optometrist - even though the one you went to wouldn't test her, some one will. Maybe even your health centre.

Answer 10

im sure she is fine maybe something as simple as her being left handed some times leftys have probems with those things dont worry about it