Does anyone have a child who muddles blue and yellow?

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My 3yo still can't work it out and consistently muddles them. Or at least thinks yellow is blue.

I know red /green is a common colour blindness but am not sure what is going on with this. Anyone know similar?

Muddles them in what way? By using the wrong word? DS struggled with the right word for colours for a bit and I wondered if he was colourblind. My Mum suggested asking him to match up things with the correct colour from a box of crayons. So, for instance, I showed him a yellow welly and asked him to find the matching crayon, or a red building block or a blue bit of lego etc. He got it right every time so I knew that his colour perception was fine and the words sorted themselves out eventually.

Words. He had a speech delay so I wondered if it was related.
I will try that trick and see if you are right - great idea

My ds is red/green colourblind but I do remember reading about the far less common blue/yellow colour blindness. Can't remember what age the optician tested him but it was before he started primary school.

My son is red/green and blue/yellow colourblind.

Try some ishihara images on line. They have ones with numbers and ones with objects for younger kids.

ok thanks for this - i just did the first test and he did know that yellow matched yellow. so it is a word problem not a colour problem. i guess he will learn that eventually.

he passed the ishihara test too

My 2.5 year old is very bright in lots of ways and very verbal but still either muddles his colours or says he doesn’t know. I worried about colour blindness for a while but he can match colours fine so I think it’s just a word problem. We are trying to play games involving colours and keep naming colours but not asking him them. He spontaneously got red and green this afternoon for the first time!

Blue and yellow got muddled in both of my DCs and they were last colours to get consistently right. Imagine there is an interesting explanation for this as seems these are two colours easily confused

Colour blind kids don't muddle colours often they see different shapes of grey or all colours very similar.

Yep, blue and yellow were the last colours my child got right, probably only consistently at the age of 4.

Yellow is a difficult word to say. Like triangle is easier than dodecahedron.

Take them to an optician to have an eye test. It's recommended that all children have their eyes tested by age three, and it's absolutely free throughout childhood. They use pictures rather than letters - so can test before they can read.

My DD muddled pink and yellow at that age, despite being very confident with all other colours early. I worried about it (posted on here in fact!) but didn't take her to the optician for another year, because all else seemed to be fine. She isn't colour-blind, but does have a different vision problem which would have been found and much more easily treated at 3 than 4.

Vision is incredibly complex, and this is a crucial age for visual development - ie the brain learning all the different things it needs to do and coordinate in order for vision to work properly. DD has ongoing subtle difficulties with vision, which will impact her life-long but could have been reduced or even avoided if I had taken her to the opticians when I first wondered about it.

I am 51 and I middle punk and yellow as always have done.

I know they are different. I know which is which and can place them, but I always say the wrong word.

Hasn’t held me back, but it does baffle me

My 4yo muddles the same colours! I have suspected colour blindness as he has a 50% chance as my father is colour blind too.
However he can match colours fine and with a lot of recent practice he is slowly getting better, so saying things like blue like daddy’s car, red like your bike etc seems to be helping him to remember better.
He also had a speech delay but is catching up.
I’ll have to try the children’s Ishiharas as both optician and GP said they could only do the ones with numbers.

My DD mixed up red and yellow until she was five (along with lots of other words eg yesterday/tomorrow, ask/tell etc.) We tried lots of thing to try and help her get them the right way around. One day I said 'red like a tomato, yellow like a daffodil'. And that was it, after that it just stuck and she no longer got them confused.

Hi
My little one is nearly three
she has been diagnosed with squint
She always mix blue and green.
She can identify other colors and concerned that she is colorblind. We have an pediatric ophthalmologist appointment in 2 weeks time for squint. Will get this checked too.
Has anyone had this blue green mix up
thanks

I started this post years ago, funny to read it back. He is autistic and severely dyslexic but does now,know his colours 😀