Colour-blind ds - how to deal with it?

[RanToTheHills]

Seems v likely ds is colourblind, it's in the family and now been picked up at school when I'd already had my suspicions.
Think it's the most common red/green one, wondering if anyone has any experience of this, how to deal with it etc. Don't want ds worrying so don't want to make a fuss but in today's visual culture, I realise ds will be at some disadvantage.

anyone?

My brother had it, and never seemed to have any problems doing anything he wanted to do.

Maybe being a fighter pilot would be a no no

DH is red / green colourblind, and other than not being able to spot a red ball in a green field, and not being much help with deciding on a shade of green for our kitchen, it's not really a problem.
As long as your ds doesn't harbour a passionate desire to fly helicopters, it shouldn't be an issue.
Hope this reassures you a bit

try not to worry, colourblindness is actually far more common than people realize. You might want to deter him being a painter and decorator when he grows up though .

thanks, both! It's the school who seemed most concerned, said I shoudl take him along for a medical check so they know what they're dealing with. Bit of a fuss, IME, but will take him for an eye test rather than to GP (who probably will know little anyway)

tbh RTTH, so long as teachers etc are aware that he has a colour deficiency it won't seriously impact on his life. AFAIK he can't be a commercial pilot or electrical engineer and obviously he could run into a few disagreements with his dw/dp re interior decorating when he grows up! Which is not really very different from most men IME! There are spectacle lenses/contact lenses by a company called Chromagen which can help.

he loves painting, shame! Still he could be a great surrealist, red leaves, green tree trunks already !

Chromagen
For some reason I can't get a the list of practitioners to work on that site but if you ring the company they can probably give you the name of someone near you.

my God, the wonders of technology! I had no idea such a thing existed! Have you tried it for yours then?

No rtth, I'm an optometrist which is how I know about it, but all of my boys appear to have normal colour vision.

ah, CM, just the woman I was looking for then! Do you think, in yr professional opinion (if you don't mind, pretty please ) that I should take him along for an eye-check? Would it help? i don't want to make a fuss but I want to know exactly the degree of colourblindedness he has, check the colours etc just so we know. Not sure I'd go for the contacts at his age.

RTTH, I would certainly take him for an eye check to establish what type of colour defect and the severity of it if just to make sure that it is the common-or-garden red/green deficiency that he has but like you, if it were one of my own I don't think I'd bother with the contact lenses in a young child, they pose their own risks! You can get them in spectacle lenses as well but the lenses are as brightly coloured as those in the video and can be different for each eye so a lot of children would feel self-conscious in them. I really wouldn't bother unless the child was having real difficulty with a particular task. Most children manage fine without!

thanks for all the info, CM, I will take him along for the check.