How to teach colors to a color blind child
It may take a while for you to discover that your child is color blind because it is not a serious health problem. However, it is important to take into account their difficulty in distinguishing between colors so that they do not interfere with the development of learning or cause self-esteem probl
It may take a while for you to discover that your child is color blind because it is not a serious health problem. However, it is important to take into account their difficulty in distinguishing between colors so that they do not interfere with the development of learning or cause self-esteem problems. While color blindness has no treatment, it is always possible to teach the child some tricks to know what color is each thing and not feel different from others. Teaching the colors of a colorblind child
is difficult but what can be easily achieved is that you remember what color each object is. Color problems of children with color blindness Color blindness is a genetic visual problem that makes
perception of colors dificulta difficult, it is usually hereditary and does not have any possible treatment, but people affected by this ailment live with it normally and it does not affect your day to day too much.
It is in childhood when the most problems can be color blindness, also called 'blindness of colors', since the child can not learn colors like others. The fact that he can not distinguish certain tonalities can also cause learning problems if the textbooks are not adapted and require the identification of colors.
How color-blind children learn colors Many parents are slow to realize that their child is color blind. It is when the childbegins to color
when they discover that they may have some problem in the development of the sense of sight. If the child paints the green sky, for example, it is a sign of color blindness, although the first impression is that he has an overflowing imagination.
The colorblind child will never be able to distinguish colors, but that does not mean he does not have to know what color things are. A trick for the child to color in class like other children is to place on each pencil a small sign indicating what color it is. The ingenuity of parents and teachers is important so that a child who can not distinguish colors is not excluded from the normal rhythm of their peers and may have problems of self-esteem. There is also a code to distinguish colors, as a braille method for reading blind people, which facilitates the integration of color blind children. It's called ColorAdd
and it's about the identification of colors using symbols. Five fundamental symbols that allow to identify the three primary colors and also the white and black. From there, the symbols are conjugated for the different tonalities and in this way the child reduces the consequences of the lack of perception in the colors.
