The picture book that tests for colour blindness

The picture book that tests for colour blindness: These vibrant illustrations feature animals that people with the condition can’t see – so, how many can YOU spot?

  • The Curious Eye is designed to help screen children for colour blindness, or color vision deficiency
  • The illustrations are designed using different coloured dots, mirroring a clinical exam called the Ishihara test
  • Each page has a mixture of animals everyone can see, and ones people with colour blindness cannot see 

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An illustrated book has been released to help screen children for colour blindness at home or in the classroom. 

The Curious Eye is full of vibrant illustrations that are designed to mimic the clinical exam for colour blindness, also known as colour vision deficiency (CVD). Colour bindness affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide.

Each image features animals that fall into one of two categories. The first set of animals will be visible to all children, regardless of whether they are colour blind or not. The second set will not be visible to colour blind children. 

This second set of animals are made up of colourful dots in shades of red, yellow, blue and green, like those used when diagnosing CVD in a clinical setting. If a child struggles to see these animals, it might mean that he or she has red-green colour deficiency, the most common form of colour blindness. 

The book was created by Children’s Eye Foundation of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus in partnership with health marketing agency Klick Health.

The hope is to diagnose colour blindness early before it impacts children’s confidence and social experiences. 

Children with undiagnosed CVD can be misdiagnosed with other learning disabilities, avoid activities or games revolving around colour, or find themselves the victims of bullying, according to researchers. 

Interested to find out how you or your child fare? Scroll down to see a selection of images from the book and count how many animals you can see. The solutions at the bottom explain which animals are visible to all children and which are the test animals. 

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The Curious Eye is full of vibrant illustrations that are designed to mimic the clinical exam for colour blindness, also known as colour vision deficiency (CVD). Colour bindness affects 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide. Interested to find out how you or your child fare? Scroll down to see a selection of images from the book and count how many animals you can see

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THE SOLUTIONS 

The creatures in blue will be visible to all children. However, a child with CVD may have trouble seeing some of the pink creatures. On the right hand-side is a tally of how many of each animal is in each image. 

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