How would you describe colors to the blind 66 Articles

by Harleyangelbrat Marilyn Ramone

Describing colors to the blind would take more than just words to help them feel the color. When a person is blind, it enhances their other senses, strengthening them beyond what a sighted person could possibly comprehend...read more

by Dina Psichogiopoulos

Colors have a unique vibration which is known in color healing. How would you describe color? By the very vibration or emotion it stimulates within you. Colors that have a warm and vibrant temperature are red, orange and...read more

by Nancy L. Young-Houser

Since 1990, NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope have brought beautiful space imagery to those who can see, opening up space of distant galaxies and neighboring planets. Now, a new book by NASA has done the same for those w...read more

by Brittany Jackson

As I walk through the park one summer day with the daughter of one of my very best friends, she asks a peculiar and thought provoking question. "What is color?" she asks. Janice has been blind since birth, and therefor...read more

by Lisa Hunt Warren

If you are on a sandy beach on a hot, sunny, afternoon you will feel the color, yellow. If you are out in the early morning hours on a day in late Spring or early Summer, particularly in the Northeastern part of the US,...read more

by Stacy Zahn

How do you describe colors to the blind? I have been born with one legally blind eye. I have had trouble distinguishing between some colours, such as burgundy and brown, and peach and yellow. As a toddler I had to do num...read more

by Marie Upmann

Being one who's last 20 some odd year's job field is the mixing and making of color; I have had to actually describe this topic to people whom I have met who are "color blind". It's quite interesting to say the least, for...read more

by Kristie Dunlap

When I was in high school many years ago my Home Economics class started a volunteer program at a state run hospital about forty minutes from our small town. You did not receive extra credit for volunteering; you did rece...read more

by Donna Pampalone

I would describe colors to the blind from the inside out. I would start at the very heart of us, our heart. We see things differently when looking at things with our heart than we do with our eyes, so I feel it is import...read more

by TNT

How would I describe "colors" to the blind? I have thought about, and discussed, this very question, many times. In my own life, I am around "differently - abled" people daily, so I can understand a little more than the av...read more

by Ahava Yardenah

I am going to start off by saying I'm going to get really philosophical, because this question is something I've heard my whole life and have never been able to answer. The answer seems like it should be so easy, yet it is...read more

by Barbara Trentacosti

This is a question that I have pondered at different times in my life, being a very visually oriented person, I would be saddened if I had to live without the wonder of color. I would begin by sharing how light and darknes...read more

by Brandon Montell

How do you describe colors to the blind? This is a very interesting question that was proposed to me by my 6th grade English teacher. We were asked to write down how we would describe each color to someone who had not seen...read more

by Jem Gedwing

When I was a young girl I used to visit with my great Auntie Mae. She lived with and cared for her blind brother my great Uncle Jim. He was around 50 ish at that point, had been blind since birth and was an accomplished ...read more

by Lisa Beach

The idea of being able to "show" a blind person colors, so that not only you, but he gets the right idea, has always fascinated me. It may be a philosophical question, but what if there were a physical, concrete way to go ...read more

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by Ann Somerville

What a hard question to answer, I've never before given it any thought at all, but what an interesting question. Did you ever disagree with a friend about the color of something, is it green or is it blue? Some things a...read more

by Katie Bell

The blind, they cannot enjoy the pleasures of colors in the world surrounding them. All different shades and Hughes that make up the wonders of the world are something to treasure. Describing to them the beauty of life aro...read more

by Nel Chong

To describe colors to the blind is not any easy task. Rather than using words to paint things they can't see and thus won't be able to understand, let's us play on their senses. Other than sight, they could smell, taste, h...read more

by Heidi Marie Fleetfoot

I would imagine that when describing colors to the blind it would be necessary to attempt to think as-though one was blind also. Without the benefit of having actually 'seen' certain objects you cannot benefit from them be...read more

by Kenneth Wong

Like many I few it is quite impossible to define colors to the blind. (long pause not a brit yet i like spelling color with a u...) Now on ward to our subject dear. Color i would tell them are light split into seven differ...read more