How can children with directional confusion be helped?
Since left and right are abstractions to students with directional confusion, they need something concrete to establish the left-to-right orientation of English print. This is easily accomplished by providing these children with an ID bracelet that you put on their left wrists. Do not ask them to read left to right. Instead, instruct them to read from the bracelet hand to the other hand, then return to the bracelet hand for the next line of print. A child does not go through life with the bracelet. By using the bracelet, you are patterning the brain to go left to right automatically. Remember to avoid using the terms left and right until the patterning is complete.
