How to Help a Left-handed Child
Since most people are right-handed, your child may come across several frustrations if she's left-handed. You'll want the child to learn to adapt at a young age when attempting to complete tasks at home or in a school setting. Start helping a left-handed child as soon as she shows dominance with that hand, typically in nursery school.
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Practice left-handed letter writing techniques. Your left-handed child will need to write in a different manner from his right-handed counterparts. When you write with your left hand, you have to write towards your body and push the pencil instead of writing away from your body and pulling the pencil.
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Mark the grip of the pencil. Left-handed children need to grip the pencil in a certain way so that they can see what they're writing on the paper (see Resources). Remind them of the proper place to grip with their finger by placing a mark on their writing instruments.
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Purchase and use products designed for left-handed children. You'll find specially designed left-handed scissors for small hands. Practice left-handed scissor techniques suggested by the online manual "Guide to Left-handed Scissors and Cutting for Kids" on the Left-handed Children website.
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Find out if your child's school makes accommodations for left-handed children. For example, the teacher should not try to make the child switch writing hands and the school should not have right-handed bias desks, like traditional tablet arm school desks.
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