Left-handed Kids

One person in ten is a left-hander. Ad every last one of them thinks he’s sort of special. Left-handers often do wll when they grow up. Despite the fact that one person in ten is left-handed, a full third of all Presidents since 1945 have been left-handed. Scientists have long known that the human brain is divided into 2 hemispheres, and that one hemisphere controls the right hand and the other controls the left hand. Nowday we know that the 2 hemispheres have different skills, different personalities and different ways of thinking.

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Which hand you use is an indication of which side of the brain you are tapped into.The rational right-handed brain handles worlds. It contains the basic speech centers and is highly verbal and adept at analytical and sequential thought. The emotional left-handed brain thinks in pictures. It understands three-dimensional space of voice (but not words), and is higly imaginative.

The right handed brain is good at school because reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic, linear disciplin.

But the left handed brain is better at playing hooky....making music....dìdrawing pictures...and tell jokes.

It’s a fact. Your sens of humor is in your left-handed brain (for this reason the are a lot of comics! Naturally left-handed !!). Left-handers who want a job in an orchestra would do well to take up the French horn which is valved for the left hand.But the most important talent of the left-handed brain is creativity.

There are some activities in which the lefft-handed brain's three-dimensional spatial precision turns left-handers into champions. For istance the reason the are so many left-handed tennis stars is because Borg, Connors, McEnroe, Navratilova, et al.., have the ability to predict precisely where the is going to go.For the same reason, almost half the major league batting stars, and at least half the pitching stars, are left-handed.

One of the more intriguing explanations for left-handedness was offered by the late Dr Geschwind. His theories suggest that handedness is determined long before birth, and determining factor is testosterone, the male hormone. If enough testosterone reaches the fetus, it will temporarily inhibit the developmente of the right-handed brain, giving the left-handed brain a head start. Result: A LEFT-HANDED BABY. The male hormone connection could explain why there are twice as many left-handed boys as girls.

Dr Geschwind's studies also suggest that left-handers are more likely to have allergies than right-handers.

It's time when educators have come to understand the unique importance of left-handers. Junita College in Darby Pennsylvania, offers a special scholarship exclusively reserved for left-handers.

(the pictures and the texts are by "left-handed kids " James T. de Kay)