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Understanding And Coping With Colour Blindness In Children

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Colour blindness Colour blindness occurs when one or more of the light sensitive cones in the retina are faulty or missing. There are many types of colour blindness with the deficiency ranging from a difficulty in distinguishing certain colour ranges such as in Dichromatism, the most common form of the disorder to monochromatism, a highly rare form of the deficiency, in which colour is viewed in black, white and shades of grey only. [ ... ]

 

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