Helping Students

08/02/2017

Education
Helping Lefties in the Classroom
The student who writes with his left hand is not less intelligent than the rest, he has only to adapt to the right environment in which he is immersed

On average, there are two left-handed students inside a classroom, so as a teacher it is important to know that it is not enough to let them handle themselves with their left hand, you have to get used to little to face all the tasks and chores Designed for the right-handed.

It is important to make it clear at all times that you are not abnormal or have any disease and you do not have to get jokes from your peers. Once you have overcome all those pitfalls, the child will work and work properly with your hand. One of the first ways to help him is to give left-handed scissors, with which the child will regain confidence in himself.

In the book "El alumno left-handed. Didactic of the writing "of María Concepción Monge Crespo, the following definition is found:" A Lefty is every student who writes with his left hand, who manifests and reaffirms this laterality in the various activities he performs inside and outside the school, And who in turn is classified as such by his parents and teachers, excluding the writer with both hands, and also know that the lefty is not a defect.

The lefty learner is no less intelligent than the rest, he has only to adapt to the right environment in which he is immersed. It can not be affirmed that left hand laterality leads to associated deficits in oral and written language.

The left-hander has a different directional and rotational direction than the right-handed one. Aspect that includes a double work since our system of writing goes of left to right, being the natural position of the left-hander of right-to-left.

The basic psychomotor patterns are not affected, but there may be spatial organization and temporal space structuring. They invest the images of mental representation with respect to the right-handed and are located opposite to the right-hand one, to the left of the middle body axis.

Left-handed and deft have the same brain functional dynamics although it is assumed that there may be a different hemispheric organization of functions. The two hemispheres work and complement each other, both left-handed and right-handed.

From what age they can be detected

From the age of four, tendencies of manual lateral preference are appreciated, so it is important to administer tests at this age (both left and right-handed children) to control this aspect.

In this way the following contralateral patterns will be acquired and will tend to achieve a visual, manual and pédica dominance of a regular form in the future when at 7-8 years laterality must be established.

In the case of lateral auditory dominance this type of dominance is separate in the case of left-handed people, because many left-handed people maintain (to a greater or lesser extent) the language in areas of the left hemisphere.

To favor the processes of: spatial organization, temporal organization and language. Help you organize your directionality. Understand any errors you may have: you can invert letters and numbers when you start reading, writing, or starting the operative calculation because you are on the other side of the body axis.

Develop well laterality to prevent problems of literacy, such as dyslexia or other difficulties, such as those related to disorders of spatiotemporal structuring and coding.

And at the time of writing?

When a lefty child begins his writing process, it is important to place it on the left side and tilt it to the right. It is also necessary to try that the position of the hand is similar to that of the right hand, always below the line, avoiding inappropriate postures and uncomfortable for the child.

In the same way you should help him to learn to make the left - right progression movement, similar to the right - handed one.

One point that the teacher must take into account is to be located on the same side of the hand that the child uses to write.

Left-handed children do not have difficulties in the process of acquiring literacy, but it is necessary to take into account certain neuropsychological aspects, since the learning of Western literacy is natural for the space-time organization of the right-handed child.