'Elio' is an example of positive representation in kids media, as characters with eye diseases are often portrayed in kids animated movies as villains, unintelligent, or followers.
Lazy eye affects up to 4% of kids. On-screen representation matters.
The Curious Eye is designed to fill in a diagnosis gap around color vision deficiency. Globally, while 1 in 12 males and 1 in 200 females are affected by the condition, many schools and physicians’ offices don’t screen for it.
The traditional colorblindness test wasn’t designed for children. Groups in the U.S. and the U.K. are building more engaging, accessible alternatives.
As the school year wraps up, report cards are making their way to your inbox. If you're surprised at the contents, don’t call the tutor just yet. Color blindness may be the cause. Color blindness is common but, when undiagnosed, can lead to a child being labeled with behavioral or learning difficulties.
The Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS recently unveiled the world’s first interactive children’s book to help screen for color vision deficiency (CVD), commonly known as color blindness.
Most children with color blindness don’t know it—how they see is simply how they see. The Children’s Eye Foundation wants to change that by helping ophthalmologists and parents screen for color blindness with a unique new children’s book.
The only crayons my son would use had to have the wrappers on, showing the names of the colors. I brushed it off as the peculiarities of a five-year-old, along with not letting the foods touch on his plate. Not long after, my father was diagnosed late in life as being color vision deficient. I had grown up thinking that my father simply had no interest in the color of anything. How easy it was to consider the behaviors to be idiosyncrasies rather than look for an underlying cause!
National children's vision nonprofit creates innovative child-friendly tool to help diagnose color blindness early and prevent challenges at an early age.
Headquarters: Children’s Eye Foundation of AAPOS 5034A Thoroughbred Lane Brentwood, TN 37027 615-649-3079 23-7116400
