All About Kids' Eye-sight

[MyBaby]

She was 25 deg on one eye and 75 degree on the other eye in middle of her P2 year. When she went for her review at the end of P2, her degree shot up to 175 and 200 respectively. So with a change of +150 for one eye, and +125 for the other eye within a half a year time frame, her opthalmologist decided to start her on atropine, coupled with my family history of bad myopia.

barney8:

hi Mybaby, i am surprised to note that your DD degree is only 150 for each eye and she is on atropine. I tot that is for high degree or when the degree shoot up?

[barney8]

MyBaby:

She was 25 deg on one eye and 75 degree on the other eye in middle of her P2 year. When she went for her review at the end of P2, her degree shot up to 175 and 200 respectively. So with a change of +150 for one eye, and +125 for the other eye within a half a year time frame, her opthalmologist decided to start her on atropine, coupled with my family history of bad myopia.

barney8:

hi Mybaby, i am surprised to note that your DD degree is only 150 for each eye and she is on atropine. I tot that is for high degree or when the degree shoot up?

Mybaby, did your DD need to get spectacles when her degree was 25 and 75?

[MyBaby]

barney8:

Mybaby, did your DD need to get spectacles when her degree was 25 and 75?

Yes, we got spectacles for her as her opthalmologist's opinion was that DD should not strain her eyes. Moreover, DD loves to read.

[Herbie]

My ds is in sec 1 this year and he has colour vision deficiency. And he has to take chemistry in sec, does anyone know how sch assist these kids in sch? Tx

[TREX8]

Let his chemistry teacher know about it. For Chemistry practical, ability to see colours is important for identification of salts/ions/gases.


During examinations, special consideration can be given. For example, after adding reagents together, and if your DS knows that he is supposed to note the colour of products obtained and/or observe a colour change, then he could ask the invigilator to tell him what is the colour. The invigilator is not supposed to volunteer the information, that is, your DS must ask and invigilator is just to simply state the colour.

For National Exams (\"O\"/\"A\" levels), the school needs to submit the names of candidates who need special consideration to Singapore Exams and Assessment Board (if I am not wrong, sometime in the beginning of the year of examination). Check with the school regarding the time frame and documents to submit and if I am not wrong, special consideration for colour blindness is not annotated in the certificate.

Herbie:

My ds is in sec 1 this year and he has colour vision deficiency. And he has to take chemistry in sec, does anyone know how sch assist these kids in sch? Tx

[Herbie]

hi TREX 8, thanks.! I hv submitted the note fr student health wrt my son’s colour blindness to the sch. So he has to memorise the change in colour equate to wat product or gases rite?

[I_belive]

MyBaby:

barney8:

Mybaby, did your DD need to get spectacles when her degree was 25 and 75?

Yes, we got spectacles for her as her opthalmologist's opinion was that DD should not strain her eyes. Moreover, DD loves to read.

Hi MyBaby,

I do not think your daughter's opthalmologist's opinion is right. As long as she can see she does not need to wear spectacles, especially 'near work'. Spectacles only make eyesight worse. You may search on the web or join
[email protected]. I did a lot of search on the web since my daughter has myopia. Your daughter's degree is so low, she gets a chance to restore her perfect vision.

[I_belive]

sall:

Her degree improves about 50 in each eye, so for these 4 yrs, it has been like that. There are also cases where children's degree increase even with the use of eye-drops, in those cases, the doctor said he would ask them to increase the application, to alternate days.

The doctor said that he would gradually stop the drop when dd looks more like an adult. I suppose he meant about 14 or 15 yrs old.

Hi Sall,
Thanks for your reply. There is an opinion that spectacles can only eyesight worse. So while she has the eye-drops she still wears spectacles full day right? Do you want to let her try not to wear specs whenever possible?

[MyBaby]

Hi I_belive, tks for the information. That myopia of 25/75 was 2 years ago. DD has since \"advanced\" to higher myopia and now on atropine... Bad family history plus her ferocious reading are not helping ...

I_belive:

MyBaby:

[quote=\"barney8\"]Mybaby, did your DD need to get spectacles when her degree was 25 and 75?

Yes, we got spectacles for her as her opthalmologist's opinion was that DD should not strain her eyes. Moreover, DD loves to read.

Hi MyBaby,

I do not think your daughter's opthalmologist's opinion is right. As long as she can see she does not need to wear spectacles, especially 'near work'. Spectacles only make eyesight worse. You may search on the web or join
[email protected]. I did a lot of search on the web since my daughter has myopia. Your daughter's degree is so low, she gets a chance to restore her perfect vision.[/quote]

[TREX8]

Well, for Chemistry practical, there is a component where an unknown substance is given and students are required to carry out a series of tests to identify the unknown. For some tests, the colour obtained is indicative of the presence of some substance. For example, blue precipitate means possibility of presence of Copper (II) salts.


All students needs to know the purpose of the tests and remember these colours, so your DS is not in any way disadvantaged. What your DS needs to do is to remember to ask for help/confirmation in identifying the colours.

Colour blindness presents in different ways in different people. I used to have a student who cannot 'see' shades of green and blue clearly. These are presented as grey colour to her. So when she carried out tests, and she observed presence of 'grey' precipitate, she would ask the invigilator to tell her the colour. According to what I know, the student needs to take the initiative to ask, invigilator cannot volunteer information.

Herbie:

hi TREX 8, thanks.! I hv submitted the note fr student health wrt my son's colour blindness to the sch. So he has to memorise the change in colour equate to wat product or gases rite?