A Missouri mother believes her three-year-old daughter with special needs was discriminated against after finding out the child was forced to take off her thick glasses for a school portrait. Abby Lubiewski was born with Hallerman-Streiff, a rare genetic syndrome that resulted in congenital cataracts. She can only perceive light and dark when she's not wearing her specs. 'She has no vision at all without her glasses,' her mother Amanda Lubiewski told Fox 2 Now. When Lubiewski received her daughter Abby's photographs, she immediately saw that her child's smile was strained. Scroll down for video . Abby Lubiewski's mother Amanda was outraged after finding out her three-year-old daughter with special needs was forced to take her thick glasses off for school picture day . When Lubiewski received her daughter Abby's photographs, she immediately saw that her child's smile was strained and said it was because Abby 'couldn't see' 'I knew then that she couldn't see,' she said. 'And I couldn't quite comprehend what would be going through someone's mind to ask her to take those off.' Lubiewski wrote a post on Facebook about how her daughter 'loves her glasses' and 'needs them to function to the best of her ability,' Yahoo! Parenting reported. 'She is a strong, confident girl and deserves to show off every beautiful part of her, including her glasses.' Lubiewski said that when Abby saw her school photo she asked, 'What happened to my glasses?' But the mother was even more concerned knowing that official school portraits are released to the public if a child goes missing. 'This is very unsafe for her,' she told Fox 2 Now. 'Her picture doesn't look like her without glasses.' When Lubiewski found out other children at Abby's school were allowed to wear their glasses for the photographs, she felt her daughter had been discriminated against. Abby was born with Hallerman-Streiff, a rare genetic syndrome that resulted in congenital cataracts. She can only perceive light and dark when she's not wearing her specs and 'has no vision at all without her glasses' Lubiewski was even more concerned knowing that police release official school portraits to the public if a child goes missing. 'This is very unsafe for her,' she said. 'Her picture doesn't look like her without glasses' Lubiewski contacted LifeTouch School Photography on Facebook and told them 'how disrespectful' the family thought it was for the company to treat Abby 'differently than other children in the school'. 'Photographers for school pictures need to be trained on how to capture each unique child,' she wrote on Facebook. 'Even those with disabilities.' Lubiewski said other photographers in the past have been able to work around the glare Abby's thick specs can sometimes cause for the camera. Two pictures of Abby wearing glasses were taken by the photographer, but she wasn't looking at the camera. 'It's not just about getting a cute picture of her,' the mother said. 'It's how she was treated, and how it seems like she was treated differently because there was a part of her that was difficult to photograph.' LifeTouch School Photography has since apologized to the family. 'We should have never had your daughter remove her glasses for the photo,' the company said to the family. 'We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind on our team.' Abby will get another chance to have her school picture free of charge on Monday after LifeTouch offered to re-take it. LifeTouch School Photography has apologized to the family and will re-take Abby's school picture for free .
Abby Lubiewski has a rare genetic syndrome and has cataracts as a result .
Her mother Amanda said she has 'no vision at all' without her glasses .
Lubiewski felt her daughter had been discriminated against when she found out other children at Abby's school got to wear their glasses .
LifeTouch School Photography has since apologized and will re-take Abby's picture for free .