#Testing kids for color blindness series#

If the child is unable to identify the colors correctly then more testing will be given. The doctor in this test simply asks the child to classify a red and green line. Colorblindness glasses change what the people who wear them see, enhancing the distinction between red and green, explains Ivan Schwab, MD, professor of ophthalmology at the University of California, Davis. In the book, the dots are instead illustrated in the shape of animals, such as turtles, monkeys, butterflies, and dolphins. Most of the children are tested for color blindness at about 4 years of age as part of a vision analysis.

#Testing kids for color blindness series#

It’s based on the Ishihara test, which features a series of multicolored dots in the shape of numbers, something that someone with CVD has difficulty seeing. The Curious Eye is a 24-page story designed for a first-grade reading level.

The book helps identify red-green, blue-yellow, and monochrome CVD in kids with an engaging, rhyme-riddled reading adventure and colorful nature illustrations. To meet the demand for early CVD diagnoses, the Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS has introduced the first-ever interactive kids’ book to help screen for color blindness: The Curious Eye. Neither schools nor most physicians’ offices screen for CVD, despite it affecting one in 12 males and one in 200 females globally. ‘The Curious Eye’ Book | Source: The Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS/the Toy InsiderĬolor vision deficiency (CVD), otherwise known as color blindness, can be difficult to catch in kids.