colours

[Phteven]

When could your child/ren name thier colours?
Yasin still gets red & yellow mixed up - I'm starting to wonder if he's colour blind.

oh, the crazy things I worry about now that I'm a mum

[sunnymel]

eliana knows all her colours
have a look for a picture with red & yellow in it & see if yasin can pick the colours out - even look up colour blind tests to put your mind at ease

[Lucy]

Chloe, Olivia was pretty ahead verbally and she was saying them all and some weird ones like "grey" and "teale" by 2. BUT, to this day she still gets purple and orange muddled up. Go figure.

Are red and yellow the "traditional" ones to get muddled when they might be a little colourblind?

[Liz]

I've got to concentrate more on colours with Tallon. I tend to forget! LOL.

My bro is colourblind (red-green deficient) but mum reckons he could pick his colours perfectly as a toddler. It wasn't until one day he came home from school having coloured in a vikings face green, and when mum asked him.. he said it wasn't green it was grey, that they realised he was colourblind. I think when they're definite colours like red & yellow they can differentiate.. it's when there's shades of colours, and certain combinations of colours.

[Tobily]

I thought it was red and green that's the problem when they're colour blind... a friend of mine is and that's what he has problems with.

If you do a google there's heaps of colour blindness tests online you could do with him that might alert you to whether there might be an issue...I did some with DD a while ago because no matter how much I practiced with her she couldn't identify red and it was bugging me.

[Pandora]

Milo knows his colours, and has done since about 12 months old.

how does Yasin go with red-green, does he get those two mixed up. I think red-green is the most common form or colourblindness, but there are more than one kind.

There should be some free tests online, or in books a the library (science geek here, I used to look this stuff up all the time) that have the colour blind test, and there will be a word or a picture that only people who are colourblind can see properly. Printed tests in a book will be better than something online becuase of the changed in colour/resolutione etc.

If you google colour blindness on google australia, the first link is to SA CYH and has some really good info there.

[Liz]

it's called red-green, but it's not usually the definite colours of red & green. My bro can see some orange as brown and other things. It's shades where they tend to get it all wrong.

ETA: wikipedia has a bit of info on it, and a test.

[Rouge]

OMG Ray thats super impressive! WOW @ 12 months! Seth is only saying a handful of words now and colours certainly aren't any of them. Paris knew her colours by about 2 some kids I know were later so I wouldn't worry just yet Chloe. I have a friend who's son is 2 and he knows every colour, I thought that was impressive LOL but she is an artist so to me it made sense. I'm really bad at talking about colours LOL Like you Liz I need to do it more.

WTG Milo I'm still flabbergasted LOL!

[PinkPalace]

you can be completly colour blind. not just red-green.
it is heritry (genetic) passed down by the mother on the x chromosome into the boys - skips a generation (is your father colour-blind)?

[Pandora]

yes, its called red-green.
some people see red as orange, and others like Liz's example.

my friend found out he was colour blind in high school, when he came out dressed in a really badly co-ordinated outfit and his mum asked why he was wearning those colours together, thats when the realised he was seeing different colours to everyone else.

ETA: he knows basic colours, crayola pencil colours. dunno about teal and maroon and those ones!

[Lucy]

Can you tell I am as much of a fan as colouring in as Olivia is, LOL! (The only reason we got onto weird colours like teale was to help us share the textas!)

[Rouge]

LMAO Lucy... you are soo good, we had "Oh thats another green"

I'm still gobsmacked by all these wonder kids!

[sconeonamission]

My uncle is colour blind - he sees everything as grey