Modern educational conditions are not designed for left-handed children: lighting from windows and the arrangement of desks in the classroom, guidelines for teaching writing - everything is designed and organized for the world of right-handed people. Teachers do not retrain a first-grader who writes with his left hand, they are patient with his characteristics, but they cannot always create the most favorable conditions for teaching such children.
Necessary
- - tests to determine the left-handedness of a preschooler;
- - paper, pencils for drawing.
Instructions
Step 1
Assess the child's tendency to be left-handed: is there any left-handed in the family or among the closest relatives. The more such people, the more likely that the child will show this feature too.
Step 2
Observe the baby: with which hand he is trying to reach the toy, which hand most often takes in his mouth. At this age, acquired left-handedness cannot yet be manifested, but genetic characteristics can already be observed.
Step 3
Track your baby's feeding habits. If the mother most often feeds the child with her right breast, then his left hand is pressed against her body for a long time and remains inactive. If we also take into account the peculiarities of the child's sucking - he eats for a long time, without rushing, then the time for holding the hand increases. The formation of left-handedness becomes the most possible.
Step 4
Do not worry if a child is not able to decide on the use of the leading hand before 3-4 years old - this is normal for younger preschoolers. Their propensity to be researchers forces them to use both right and left hand evenly, or even both at the same time.
Step 5
Test the child using a series of tasks to determine not only the leading hand, but also the leading, more active hemisphere of the brain, because left-handedness is a consequence of the physiological characteristics of a person. With their help, you can determine the category of the child: right-brain or left-brain. A left-handed toddler is more likely to receive indicators that indicate activity in the right hemisphere.
Step 6
Invite your child to draw the same image alternately with the right and then the left hand. The result is assessed not by the speed of the drawing, but by the result: the child draws with the leading hand more slowly, but more accurately.
Step 7
Offer to complete at least 4-5 tasks: - put your hands in the castle; the upper left finger will indicate left-handedness; - clap your hands so that one palm is down and the other up; - interlace your hands over your chest and see which hand is outside; - aim at a target for shooting a children's pistol: it will indicate left-handedness open left eye: The more results indicate the dominant left hand, the more likely the child is left-handed.
