they tend to favour one hand over the other for certain tasks, particularly for writing or drawing. A child's "handedness" is generally categorised as right, left or mixed, and tends to settle ...

Children who are left-handed or ambidextrous perform worse at school than right-handers, according to a study of national curriculum test results. Left-handed girls fare worse than boys ...

Children who are left-handed score lower in IQ tests and throughout their school career will score around 1 per cent lower in tests than right-handed children, according to research by the ...

Teachers used to go to extraordinary lengths to force left-handed children to use their right, from tying their preferred arm down to assigning fellow pupils to sit with them and make sure they ...

Lauren Milsom, author of the book Your Left-handed Child, said “right-bias” still held back as many as one-in-10 children in the UK. She suggested that left-handed children were also more ...

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Being a left-handed child is not just a unique trait, but an important aspect of a child's development and learning style. Have you ever met a left-handed child? Perhaps your child is a lefty!