Left handed calligraphy

The development of handedness preference has a hereditary basis; if in a family there is a left hander there will be a chance to be left-handed. The environmental factors, temperamental differences play a role in determining wheter latent left-handedness will be cultivated or suppressed. Years ago children were prevented from using their left-hand, now many children are allowed to write with their chosen hand; this means that the left handers want imitating their right handed friends. By the time they reach the school, the writing will be slow and untidy. If they tried to copy right-handers they may have adopted a position known as “The hook” (they write with the left arm curled round so that the hand is above the writing and the pencil tilted with the point towards the body). Using a pen is even more difficult and ink work will inevitably be smudged. To write for a left hander is more difficult. The first is that the left-to-right direcition favors right-handers because it is easier to pull a pen across a page that to push one. As a left handed moves across a pen, it is often covering the letters it has just written. The main solution is to have the right equipment: pens that have quick drying ink, pencils, notebooks (that open left to open) and binders. The proper position for writing consist of 3 factors. The first is the position of the body: POSTURE. The second id the position of the pencil in the hand, often called the GRIP.The third is the position of the paper, which is referred to as the slant or the tilt of the paper. Ideally, he proper grip for left handers should be a mirror image of the proper grip for right handers Theaching left-handers write should be easy when they are young. Teaching handwriting is one of the most important functions of our schools.. A right hand prefernce may be easier to recognize, because the right hand children use sometime their left; a left handers use the right hands frequently. Sometime to know if a child is left handed it’s enough to see him to pick up a fork or spoon; or throw a ball with their dominant hand, and beat a drum with their dominant hand. Left handed children generally have as much ability to learn as right handed children but they have to be prepared by their parents at home or by theachers during the preschool.