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As a teacher we must be aware of the signals that students might present, so their color deficency vision would not be confused with a learning problem, some of the signals are:

using the wrong colours for an object – e.g. purple leaves on trees, particularly using dark colours inappropriately

low attention span when colouring in work sheets

denial of colour issues

problems in identifying red or green colour pencils or any colour pencil with red or green in its composition. (e.g. purple, brown)

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9850 Genesee Ave
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La Jolla, CA 92037

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858-459-6200

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Dr. Lusby has been practicing medicine since 1983 and was board certified in Ophthalmology in 1985. Dr. Lusby received his medical degree from Loma Linda University in 1978. He served his internship specializing in Flexible at Malden Hospital and served his residency specializing in Ophthalmology at White Memorial Medical Center. With over 17 years of experience, Dr. Lusby has performed over 6000 refractive surgeries throughout the United States, Mexico and China. Specializing in LASIK surgery, Dr. Lusby’s practice emphasis has been refractive surgery since 1989.

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Color blindness means your eye doesn't see color the way it should.

Your eyes see differences in the light that comes in. It's a bit like the way we hear sounds as being low or high. This is called pitch, and it corresponds to the frequency of the sound, or how many times it vibrates in a given time period.

The keys on the left side of a piano keyboard make low-frequency sounds. The frequency rises as you go to the right. There's a similar order to the colors we see.

The colors of every rainbow always appear in the same order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The different colors in each part of the rainbow correspond to a different wavelength of light. Reddish colors have a long wavelength. Bluish colors have a shorter one. Just as there are many notes on the piano, many wavelengths of light match the different colors.

How Does Your Eye See Colors?

Think of your eye as a camera. The front part has a lens. Its job is to focus images on the inside of the back of your eye. This area is called the retina. It's covered with special nerve cells that contain pigments that react to light:

Cones control your color vision. There are several kinds of pigments present in three types of cone cells. Some react to short-wavelength light, others react to medium wavelengths, and others react to higher wavelengths

Rods only have one kind of pigment. It reacts the same way to any light wavelength. Rods don't have anything to do with color vision. But they are very sensitive to light and allow us to see at night.

What Is Color Blindness?

When the cones have all the various pigments -- called photopigments -- your eye sees all possible colors. If there's a problem with the pigments, you won't see colors the way you should. This is called color deficiency or color blindness.

If just one pigment is missing, you might only have trouble with seeing certain colors.

If you don't have any pigments in your cones, you won't see color at all. This is known as achromatopsia.

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What Causes Color Blindness?

Usually, genes inherited from your parents cause faulty photopigments -- molecules that detect color in the cone-shaped cells, or "cones," in your retina.

But sometimes color blindness is not because of your genes, but rather because of:

Physical or chemical damage to the eye

Damage the optic nerve

Damage to parts of the brain that process color information

Cataract -- a clouding of the eye's lens

Age

What Are The Different Types Of Color Blindness?

The most common types happen when genes you inherit from your parents that help make the photopigments in the cones of your eyes don't work properly. Sometimes this means you are less sensitive to some colors than others, and sometimes it means you can't see certain colors.

Red-Green Color Blindness

It's when photopigments in your eyes' red cones or green cones don't work properly -- or at all. There are several types:

Deuteranomaly: It's the most common form of color blindness and affects 5% of males, but is rare in females.

It happens when the green cone photopigment doesn't work as it should. Yellow and green look redder, and it's hard to tell blue from violet.

Protanomaly: Your red cone photopigment doesn't work as it should. Orange, red, and yellow look greener, and colors are less bright. It's usually mild and doesn't cause problems in daily life. It's rare in females and affects about 1% of males.

Protanopia: You have no working red cone cells. The color red simply looks black. Some shades of orange, yellow, and green look yellow. It's rare in females and affects about 1% of males.

Deuteranopia: You have no working green cone cells. Reds may look brownish-yellow, and greens may look beige. It affects 1% of males and is rare in females.

Blue-Yellow Color Blindness

This is when your blue cone photopigments are either missing or don't work correctly. It's the second most common type, and it affects males and females equally.

Tritanomaly: Your blue cone cells work in only a limited way. Blue looks greener, and it can be hard to tell pink from yellow and red. It's extremely rare.

Tritanopia: Also known as blue-yellow color blindness, you have no blue cone cells. Blue looks green, and yellow looks light gray or violet. It's extremely rare.

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Complete Color Blindness

Also called monochromacy, you don't see any color at all and your vision may not be as clear.

There are two types:

Cone monochromacy: It happens when 2 of your 3 cone cell photopigments -- red, green, or blue -- don't work. When only one type of cone works, it's hard to tell one color from another. And if one of your faulty cones is blue, your vision may not be as sharp, you may be nearsighted, and you may have uncontrollable eye movements -- a condition known as nystagmus.

Rod monochromacy: Also known as achromatopsia, it's the most severe form of color blindness. None of your cone cells have photopigments that work. As a result, the world appears to you in black, white, and gray. Bright light may hurt your eyes, and you may have uncontrollable eye movement (nystagmus).

Does Color Blindness Cause Other Health Problems?

The kind that's present at birth doesn't. Most people who are colorblind lead normal and complete lives. The condition might keep you from a job -- like a pilot -- that requires a certain level of color vision.

If you think you have a problem with color vision, talk to your eye doctor right away. She can tell you if you're seeing colors properly and what to do if you aren't.

Sources

SOURCES:

American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus: "Color Blindness."

American Academy of Ophthalmology, geteyesmart.org: "What is Color Blindness?"

NIH National Eye Institute: "Facts About Color Blindness."

NDT Resource Center: "Frequency and Pitch."

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Color blindness means your eye doesn't see color the way it should. Your eyes see differences in the light that comes in. It's a bit like the way we hear sounds as being low or high. This is called pitch, and it corresponds to the frequency of the sound, or how many times it vibrates in a given time period.

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Colourblindness (colour vision deficiency, or CVD) affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world. People with this condition can see as clear averyone else, but their sensitivity for some colors change.

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There is no treatement yet for this contidion, but the usage of a special glasses can be used to help people with color blindness to enhance their sensitivity to some colors.

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1. protanomaly: reduced sensitivity to red

2. deutomary: reduced sensitivity to green (most common)

3. tritanomaly: reduced sensitivity to blue (extremely rare)

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More accurately called color vision deficiency, color blindness is the inability to distinguish colors, most often shades of red and green. Only rarely does a person not see any color at all.