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[quote=Anonymous]For boys, ask whether colorblindness runs in the mother's family.  If her brothers, uncles or other males relatives through her mother's side are colorblind, it's possible.  If there's no history, it's possible that it's achromatopsia.  "About one out of 40,000 babies never develops cones, seeing only in black-and-white throughout life. This is called achromatopsia, or rod-monochromatic colorblindness."

For girls, it's very, very, very unlikely that they get the genes for red-green colorblindness, as mom has to be carrier or colorblind and dad MUST be colorblind.  You would know if either parent was colorblind if you've been working with them for 2.5 years.

Yes, telling us the NAMES for specific colors is an advanced skill, as is reading.  There's no way for a child to tell us the name that is common in whichever language for a specific color unless they are taught.  There is no way for a child to learn to read without first being taught (and reading to a child who is advanced enough to follow the words is still teaching that child to match the word to a combination of letters).  We take a lot of the advanced skills that we use a building blocks of our daily lives for granted, but young children are just learning.

By the way, asking to have a child under 2 evaluated is rather premature, don't you think?[/quote]

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