Colorblind high-schooler gets gift of better view

CANFIELD

No words could express the new view for a color-blind student sporting EnChroma glasses.

When math teacher Carl Pennington realized Emily Hrima couldn’t see the colors he used in his instruction, he wanted to do more than just accommodate her. He wanted to find a way to help her see the colors.

“I saw an article about these glasses, and the timing was just perfect. It was right around the time of parent-teacher conferences,” Pennington said.

He mentioned the glasses to Emily's parents and Emily. The 10th-grader found out she was color-blind at 13 years old.

Emily said everything just looked mostly yellow, blue and gray.

“Everything was just dull and gross,” she said.

Emily said she had to do research about EnChroma glasses to see if they would work with her form of color-blindness. She said she found half of the time when people suffering from color-blindness used the glasses it helped them see the full spectrum of colors — and half of the time it did nothing.

Read what happened to Emily in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.