Left-handed children: 10 keys to adapt to school
The beginning of schooling marks a particularly complicated stage for left-handed children because many schools are not prepared to perform their adaptation correctly. Receiving left-handed children means for the school to have previously the appropriate material and with trained teachers to teach writing to left-handed children.
10 keys to adapt left-handed children to school
1. Desks and tables. A left-handed child needs a desk for left-handed people. If you have shared tables, ask the teacher to place the child always either in the head or in the left corner, if it is a table of six, and on the left side if there are two tables together. In this way, children will avoid elbowing each other when writing or painting with opposite hands.
2. Special scissors for lefties. Few schools have them. They are not expensive and are an excellent investment, it is very difficult to cut with a scissors for rights, because instead of cutting, the paper is imprisoned between the two sheets.
3. Teach the child to write in the proper posture. Left-handers are blurring what they write with their hands, and they need to see what they are writing. For this reason, they usually adopt a hooked position with the wrist completely folded, which is not very functional, creates awkward calligraphy and also results in slow and fatiguing writing.
4. The right posture for the left-handed child is with the straight arm and wrist, but with the paper placed to the left of the table and tilted in such a way that the upper left corner is at the top, the arm perpendicular with reference to the lower edge and the writing hand is below the line on which you write.
5. So that the child can see what he writes, you should hold the pencil a little higher, between 2.5 and 3 <, cm from the tip. One way to help the child get a good pencil, it is good to buy a triangle and place it at this distance. At first you will pick up the pencil very strongly and tend to make very large letters, but with practice you will acquire dexterity, relax your hand and reduce the size of the letter naturally.
6. Learn to make certain letters It is another problem for left-handed children. The right-hand children trace the stick of the A or the bar of the T from left to right, that is, by pulling the pencil, following the arrows in the books to learn to write. When the lefties follow the arrows they have to push the pencil, which results in a much more clumsy and less precise stroke. Left-handed children should make the stroke in reverse from right to left. Likewise the O, that the right-handers do against the clock, the left-handers must do in the direction of the hands of the clock. There are special internet resources for left-handed children who learn to write. Many teachers are not aware of this difficulty and can ask the child to do the stroke as the book says. It is preferable to discuss it in advance and provide them with the material, if necessary.
7. When they start using pens, These should have quick drying ink.
8. When using computers, Left-handers prefer to use the mouse with the left hand, but often the computers are shared between two students, so you have to try to put the left-handed children on the same computer or give the left-handed a computer to him alone.
9. Spiral notebooks are very uncomfortable for left-handers. It is preferable to use folios and then put them in the folder or get notebooks that have the spiral on top.
10. When writing on the whiteboard, left-handed people tend to erase what they write, so you have to take it into account.
Nita Aspiazu
