How Do I Determine If My 5-Year Old Child Is Left-Handed Or Right-Handed?
Determining Hand Dominance How can one decide which hand the child should use in writing? Wrong choices at the readiness and early primary level could be detrimental to the child’s writing and perhaps to the child’s learning ability and personality. The choice, then, is an important one. If the child is definitely left-handed, it is better to teach her or him to use that hand in writing. If, however, there is some doubt as to which is the dominant hand, there are several simple ways of determining which will be the hand to train. A few guidelines should be observed in these procedures. Do not tell the child that she or he is being tested. Work with only one child at a time. Keep a record as to which hand is used for each specific situation. Let the child pick up the testing materials; do not hand them to the child. Keep a tally of the procedures. If the child indicates true ambidexterity, it is probably better to train the right hand. Several procedures are listed below. There are many
