TIPS FOR CHILDREN

12/07/2017

A left-handed child does not have to have problems in daily activities, but sometimes we must facilitate the acquisition of certain skills so that children do not develop bad habits difficult to correct later.

Writing is an activity in which left-handed children may have difficulty since the fact that writing is left to right makes it difficult for them to see what they are writing and adopt uncomfortable and less functional postures for writing.

Common problems

That usually affect left-handed children:

- Hook position of the hand when writing: the wrist is folded to be placed on the line of writing and to be able to see what is being written. This causes a clumsy position and makes writing slow and uncomfortable. Using a lectern to

Writing time can help avoid this posture.

- Smears at work: the hand pushes the ballpoint pen by the paper, if it goes above what is already written can be making stains and smudges.

- Straight clamp: this may be because the child is in an uncomfortable position (with a right-handed partner on his left side his arms may collide as he writes), an uncomfortable holding pen can produce tension in the clamp.

- Mirror Writing: Many left-handed children are prone to mirror writing because their natural tendency is to go from right to left.

General guidelines

- Make sure that both the chair and the child's table are the right size and the child supports his feet well on the floor. Chairs that have a built-in writing structure are designed for right-handed people and are almost a "tool

Of torture "for left-handed children so we should avoid its use.

- Have the child hold the pencil at least 2cm from the tip. There are in the market pens with a special shape that makes the tip look good.

- Paper position: For a left-handed child, the paper should be slightly tilted to the right and placed on the table also slightly towards the left side of the child's body.

- Location next to another left-handed child or to the left side of the table. In many classrooms there is little space between one child and another so if we place a left-handed child next to a right-hander, it is likely that his arms will collide as he writes.

- It is necessary to watch and to try to correct the position that adopts the hand of the child when it writes. Using a pencil adapter may cause the child to adopt the correct clip.

In the market we can find materials adapted for lefties such as pens with crooked tip, scissors for left-handed, rulers, pencil sharpener, notebooks, kitchen material.

UNIVERSO ZURDO works to eliminate barriers, looking for all the facilities so that your son or daughter focuses on what matters.