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Educating children handed

12/03/2014

Educating children handed in a world made for right Article originally published in Learning Disabilities # 4 of Chile Parents and teachers of the child and the left-handed child can collaborate in many ways to make it easier to manage in a world designed for right thought . There are reasons to believe that left-handedness is a disorder or learning or language or intelligence. Nor is it a symptom of skill. The lefties are as skilled as righties , always use their preferred hand . It is very important that a boy or a girl know why lefty is a lefty , and so are other children , because that will defend in front of a difficult situation. Some parents worry when your child is leaning to the left hand , considering left-handedness as a learning disorder . Of course a boy or girl will have problems southpaw to join the writing, but the difficulty will be just the beginning. The education of a child or left child does not have to be different from a right-handed child. The only thing parents can do in the first case is to support, understand and contribute greatly to make it easier for your left-handed child cope in a world conceived and designed for right-handed people . In our daily lives most of the activities are geared to a society of skilled ( mouse and computer keyboard , rope watch , etc. . ) . Problems like the cork stays in the bottle , scissors that do not cut well , the guitar strings that are positioned backwards , college desks, among others, are situations that are frequently repeated . The most important thing a father should teach your son or daughter is handed the ability to adapt to a world made for right . The handedness is not a problem . The only problem is to ensure the comfort of left-handed children , and thus avoid frustration or feel discriminated against. These small daily problems can lead to frustration , anxiety or even lack of confidence in the boys or girls, because of their age when they are unable to recognize the true cause of his clumsiness . In the school , teachers must be informed of the handedness of a child from the beginning , so they can give it the attention it needs, and determine changes for better comfort of the child. Fortunately , today these problems are decreasing due to increased social awareness of the development of minorities. Today there are special products and lot of literature and information on the nature of lefties. Even great myths have spread on the intellectual and creative of the most dominating his left hand skills. The left cerebral hemisphere ( exercising control on the right side ) controls speech , language , writing , logic, mathematics and science , here is linear thinking mode . The right cerebral hemisphere (which has control of the left hand ) plays the music, art , creativity , perception, emotions , mood , here is the holistic way of thinking. This domination of the brain makes lefties are probably more creative and visual thinkers righties . This is supported by a higher than normal percentage of lefties in jobs and professions such as music and the arts in general. Left-handers are also generally better in the three-dimensional perception and thought. There are , for example, more left-handed architects than normal compared to other professions. Lefties are also pretty good at most ball sports by having a greater hand-eye coordination . The child or left child requires a special look Boys or girls lefties need tolerance and patience from their parents and teachers, not just let them fend for themselves with their left hand . We must accustom , slowly , to cope with all the tasks and chores designed for righties , starting with one of the first tools that children use : round tip scissors . For a child or left child, working with a tool for right cause discomfort and frustration over poor performance . Parents should be concerned , as these problems are solved if the child uses left-handed scissors , in this way , the child will regain confidence . There are other tasks that require no tools and will be difficult to develop for the child if not properly guided , such as tying shoelaces because you should learn to do it the other way around most skilled . Parents play a big role in this regard. At home, they can help your child lefty fasten shoelaces , for example , sitting in front of him and guiding him go as if it were a reflection in a mirror. Patience and understanding are key ingredients in education. At birth, boys and girls are ambidextrous , but a tendency usually manifests in a short period of time. Two months is beginning to produce a distribution of responsibilities between the hand and the creative hand work , but only after the third year we can say with some degree of certainty that a child is left-handed . But there is a period between three years and feels called quirilancia period , known as ambidiestrismo . To check this as soon as possible , observe children carefully when performing activities such as painting , grab and take things , eating, forces, etc. . The handedness refers not only to hands but also the legs, eyes and ears , and this issue should not be neglected . It is during the quirilancia when both hemispheres are equipotent , which means that there is still mastering any of them. At one point a normative maturation process that define the preference is done . It is at this stage that some teachers or parents who think they are doing very well facilitate the use of the right hand over the left . This is a wrong attitude , because that is the time when the child should determine handedness . When you are forced to use the right hand , many of these boys and girls have become undercover lefties. In other words, people with lateralization . They are often treated as if they were dyslexic , when in fact they are having difficulties lateralization . When it detects that a child is upset lefty , there are no magic or immediate solutions. Keep in mind that this does not begin to write with his left hand, especially if you have eight to ten years, but should be allowed to offset the problem training him in the use of hand derecha.La easiest way to check if a child is left or right handed is devoting time to see how it evolves its handedness , seeing which hand , foot or eye uses when making spontaneous actions like holding a bottle or pacifier , finger painting , looking through a kaleidoscope or other object , cleaning a surface with a cloth , brush your teeth , comb your hair , wear a full glass of water , hop on one foot ... There are some tests or tests that provide us the ability to determine, on a symmetrical body , which dominates . The left-handed child or girl should be clear that it is a normal person who does not have a disease and does not have to receive jokes from his colleagues . Having overcome all these obstacles , the child will unfold and will work properly with your left hand.