Colourblindness in kids
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Found the brochure online. Please go to http://www.hpb.gov.sg and key in colour blindness under the search engine (within hpb website).
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Herbie:
Found the brochure online. Please go to http://www.hpb.gov.sg and key in colour blindness under the search engine (within hpb website).
Dear All,
Thank you very much for all your effort to share . I will ask my friend to read them herself at this website.
Herbie : Really a very big Thank You to you for your effort to help search for the brouchure. :thankyou: -
Hi Edanson
No worries!!
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HI,
My husband has slight colourblindness. Was just wondering.. what is the possibility of my children having the same problem...
Anyone has any experience...?? :? -
Please read the brochure. It is stated in the brochure… Usually it is past down from the mother’s gene…
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This is interesting...I just found out my hubby and his brother are both mildly green-red color blind.
Inherited or acquired defect
Most individuals who are color blind inherit the trait. Men are more likely to be color blind because of the way color blindness
is inherited. The gene for the trait is located on the X chromosome. Men have one X chromosome and women have two. If a man inherits the gene for the trait, he will have a color vision defect. If a woman inherits a single gene for the trait, she will not, because the normal gene on her other X chromosome will dominate over the defective gene. Women must inherit the defective trait from both parents to be color blind.
Color blindness is a so-called sex-linked characteristic. This means it is a gene that occurs only on the X chromosome, which is passed to the child by the mother. The Y chromosome, which is passed to the child by the father, does not carry the defective gene. This means that children
inherit color blindness only from their mothers. Children can inherit color blindness from a mother who is color blind or from a mother who is a carrier of the gene but is not color blind herself. Daughters of men who are color blind will carry the trait, but sons will not.
Read more: http://science.jrank.org/pages/1605/Color-Blindness-Inherited-or-acquired-defect.html#ixzz0WTDq3DP8 -
i am doing this for a project and i am proposing an exhibition. this is the design brief that i came up with.
Description of project
Overall goal – raise funds for the research of gene treatment to cure colour blindness
What is the objective of the new design project?
To create awareness and better understanding of colour blindness. Colour blindness can be life-threatening, where some colours are involved (eg. Traffic light colours). Other than their pre-existing condition, people who are colour blind may suffer the psychological effects of public perception of colour blindness. I also hope to get people to sympathise with people who are colour blind.
What are you trying to communicate and why?
The sight exhibit allows the visitor to ‘look through’ the eyes of people with sight problems. This helps them to understand the difficulties people diagnosed with colour blindness go through. I am aiming to get people to experience and understand the symptoms of colour blindness, thus allowing them to detect signs of colour blindness in people, be it strangers, friends or their children.
How do you differ from your competitors?
There are no known events relating to colour blindness in Singapore. While some small efforts have been made to help the public better understand, these are usually done through brochures, which have been overly used in other areas as well. Furthermore, the experience of being colour blind is not easy to express in words. Hence, I feel that my project is more effective since it allows the visitors to experience being colour blind themselves.
Who is the target market?
Primary target audience - age 25-35 , male and female, employment - teacher, parents, people who don't have colour blindness
Secondary target audience - the age 7-12 , male and female, students, kids who don't have colour blindness
Expectations
Make the exhibition interactive.
Make the info easily understood.
Make the exhibition and info memorable.
To spark interest
what i want to know is that, what else would you want this exhibition to have? how can i make it better so that adult and kids can understand.
also, i couldn't find the brochure in hpb's website
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Oddie,
very nice and laudable project. Here are my thoughts;
1) Did you have a target organisation to which you would be directing funds raised? Gene therapy research into a specific area such as this would run into the billions of dollars, and I am not sure we can do more than put a drop into that ocean. Unless you already have a specific idea on this I would suggest that fund raising not be your overall goal.
2) Suggest that the overall goal be to raise awareness. The target audience should expand to include those WITH colour-blindness to educate them on opportunities and maybe set up some sort of support-group. Here is an opportunity for you to work with the HPB to see if they can lend some funding and horsepower to the project.
3) Have you given thought to publicity?
Happy to bounce ideas with you.
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http://www.hpb.gov.sg/eyecare/
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3Boys, thank you so much for the input and suggestions!
1) Did you have a target organisation to which you would be directing funds raised? Gene therapy research into a specific area such as this would run into the billions of dollars, and I am not sure we can do more than put a drop into that ocean. Unless you already have a specific idea on this I would suggest that fund raising not be your overall goal.
Ummm, I thought that the money should go to the University of Washington's ophthalmology department. Thought of maybe partnering with National Eye Centre, so they'll help me with the launch of the exhibition and the money goes to them, and then they'll 'pass' the money to the University of Washington.
2) Suggest that the overall goal be to raise awareness. The target audience should expand to include those WITH colour-blindness to educate them on opportunities and maybe set up some sort of support-group. Here is an opportunity for you to work with the HPB to see if they can lend some funding and horsepower to the project.
Oh, I guess the overall goal to raise awareness would actually make more sense, as well as targeting those with colour-blindness too. I hadn't thought of it like that.
3) Have you given thought to publicity?
I'll be designing posters to advertise the exhibition. I have no idea what to name the exhibition yet, though. No good names yet.
What would make the exhibition interactive? I thought of making one \"room\" to be coloured normally, while another exact duplica would be how the colour blind see. Also thought of games? For kids, or something but I am not sure what, exactly, yet.
I only have 4 more weeks to design this exhibition and I am a bit panicky. And I realised there's quite little info on colour blindness. I mean, sure, they have info on how colour-blindness happens and all that, but nothing much beyond that.
Oh, I also thought of putting some \"facts\" in the exhibition. i've found this: http://www.colblindor.com/2009/01/06/50-facts-about-color-blindness -
My son will be gg to NS soon. He has colour deficiency.
How will the army allocate recruit their role if he has with colour blindness?
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