{"id":2710,"date":"2017-09-19T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2017-09-19T14:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T22:08:26","slug":"dreaming-and-seeing-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/dreaming-and-seeing-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming and Seeing in Color"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madeline enjoying all the colors Disneyland has to offer with her Enchroma sunglasses<\/p><\/div>\n

Written by: Madeline Cowdell, News Producer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u200b\u201cRed brick is actually red!\u201d I exclaimed, when I walked out of a San Francisco Bay Area optometrist\u2019s office, while trying on a pair of Enchroma sunglasses.\u00a0 That day was the first time I saw many colors and shades I had never seen before.\u00a0 To me, red brick was always brown.\u00a0 I also saw purple, pink and orange for the very first time in my life.\u00a0 I was so excited to get out and see the colorful world that we live in.<\/p>\n

Enchroma is a company based in Berkeley, California that created special glasses to help people with specific types of colorblindness.\u00a0 According to Enchroma’s website, the glasses use a special filter to help separate the light wavelengths to enhance specific colors.\u00a0 I purchased both outdoor sunglasses and indoor prescription reading glasses.\u00a0 They work the best with bright light, such as from the sun or a computer screen.\u00a0 I have had the glasses for two years and I still see new colors all the time!<\/p>\n

I was first diagnosed with colorblindness in Grade One.\u00a0 My teacher was using yellow chalk on a green chalkboard and I couldn’t read the assignments properly.\u00a0 I was sent to a vision specialist where they had me look at dot tests.\u00a0 The dot test is a circle made up of many smaller colored circles with a number printed in the middle. The circle might be made up of shades of green, and the number might be in shades of red.\u00a0 People with normal color vision would be able to see the number, but I was never able to.\u00a0 After the tests, I was diagnosed as an extreme Deutan, meaning I had difficulty distinguishing between red and green.<\/p>\n

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Colorblindness, or Color Vision Deficiency (CVD), is fairly common.\u00a0 As many as eight percent of men and 0.5 percent of women are red-green colorblind, according to the National Eye Institute. \u00a0 There\u2019s also blue-yellow colorblindness and complete colorblindness; the latter is extremely rare.\u00a0 It can also run in families, my maternal grandfather was colorblind.<\/p>\n

\"Women

Madeline sits at her desk while wearing her indoor Enchroma glasses<\/p><\/div>\n

It can be challenging being colorblind.\u00a0 Everything from completing school assignments, to matching outfits and driving can be tricky.\u00a0 At my job, as a television news producer, we have specifically color-coded scripts that, depending on the color, can mean different things.\u00a0 I once accidentally dropped a script from the teleprompter as it was being read live on air because I couldn’t tell the difference between the colors. I purchased Enchroma\u2019s indoor lenses for work, so I wouldn\u2019t have any more confusion.<\/p>\n

\u200bEvery person is different, and the glasses from Enchroma won\u2019t work for everyone.\u00a0 For me, there\u2019s nothing better than finally being able to see the world in its true color.<\/p>\n

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***Diagram photo courtesy of Enchroma Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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