Could my child be color blind?

Well, I'm (partially) color blind so now I know some of the worry my parents may have had. It wasn't discovered until I was in school.

Usually, unless you are totally color blind, you only mix up a few colors (like greens and reds). Sounds like, though, your child isn't getting any colors. If he's not responding to something like the Skittles test, then he may be color blind.

The only way to find out for sure is to have him tested. Not sure how they'll do it for a three year old. My tests have always consisted of circles (full of different colored dots) with numbers or letters in them. Once, though, I was given a "block" test - It had many blocks with different shades in an order (kind of like a rainbow - red let to orange led to yellow led to blue led to green, etc.). It was dumped out, mixed up, and I had to put it back in order (I missed several shades of the range I'm color blind in). Maybe there is some test like this for kids.

I will say that it's likely nothing to worry about. Even if it can't be determined until your son is a little older it's certainly not a disability that is detrimental. He sounds like a smart little boy who is developing quite well in other areas. If he's color blind, oh well. He'll just need your help to get his clothes to match (which you do now anyway). But I do remember coming downstairs once or twice when I was a little older only to have my sisters laugh at me and my mom send me back to my room to get a different shirt to go with my green pants (as a kid, I had a pair of green corduroy pants).

My wife still helps me pick out my ties when I get a new suit, but I've learned to love Khaki pants (anything matches).

Best of luck with him, enjoy him, and don't worry. Again, even if he's color blind he be able to do virtually anything. Very few jobs wouldn't be available to him [pilot, a few jobs involving electronics (they involve complex wiring with color coded wires)], but that's about it. He'll adjust nicely and likely excel in some other area that will make you very proud.

Well our 3 year old won't tell us the names of colors either. And I am sure he is not color blind - if we select an outfit for him and it doesn't match he won't wear it.

Just identify each thing by color for a while - ask him to pick up the blue car and put it away, look for his red jacket etc. Slowly our boy is starting to learn them with this method.

However if it doesn't work you may want to have his eyes checked and ask them about the color blindness thing-- if he can't see the colors you don't want to be pushing him to do something that is impossible for him.

At that age, its still hard to say. Maybe he can't see the difference in colors or maybe he just simply can't remember the names of the colors.

Try this trick. Start asking him to group like-colors together. If he can put all the reds in one pile, all the blues in another pile and all the yellows in another pile, then he probably isn't color blind. He's still young though. Give him some time.

It's possible, but it is still hard to tell at this age. They can do the basic tests to check for it at the eye doctor, but even that is not entirely conclusive. I remember them telling me that one or two of my boys may be color blind, but as they got a bit older and repeated the test, no problems were observed. Generally, color blindness is a genetic condition and it skips a generation. It's passed from father to daughter to grandson. My dad was colorblind, so it definitely raised the risks....but all of my boys lucked out.

I guess he cant remember the names he has black and white down because they are the most basic of hues. The vivid colors could scramble what he thinks its not that he is color blind beace he would also see diffrent hues of gray while looking but most of the time being color blind is gentic the chances are 1 in 12 if your blood tests possitive for a gentic deseise.

I have the same problem with my 2.5 yrs boy.when i suspect he is colour blind , i decided to only intro him to 1 colour 1st. example i buy him only blue bags, shirt,water bottle...and tell him all these things are in blue and when i see anything in blue i will also let him know that this item is in colour blue. When time goes by i will choose some items which is new to him and ask him which is the blue one. If he can point it to you several times then i guess he is not colour blind. Just dun push him too much.

1) when children learn colour concepts, or any concepts for that matter, it usually has a pattern,which is as follows:

*sorting 2 different colours

*matching colours

*identifying different colours

*naming them

*generalising- which means if u ask ur son what else in the room is red, he might point to an apple or his red bike.

it looks like your son has got it for some colours but not all, which takes time.

2) if he has colour blindness, problems in daily activities will also come up, like taking two different colour socks to wear, not able to sort playing blocks adequately, etc.

as long as he has problems in only one aspect i dont think u need to worry.

perhaps u can take him thru the above steps instead of going straight to the last step...

I definately wouldn't be worrying yet, many children still don't know all their colors by age 5.

i could be. im not sure.