Left-handed children face challenges in a world designed for right-handers. Maggie Jones shows how you can help
Around one in nine children are left-handed. Although the days are gone when they were forced to fit in with a right-handed world, left-handed children do have special difficulties that receive little help in most nurseries and classrooms.
One problem is that there is not a simple split between right-handedness and left-handedness. Some children are very strongly left-handed, carrying out all complex manual tasks with their left hand and struggling to use their right hand for such tasks at all. Others can use both hands quite well, showing only a slight preference for the left. In addition, many children may not develop a strong hand preference until the age of seven or eight.
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