Re: Left-handers and learning

Tane Akamatsu (tanea who-is-at ibm.net)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:56:15 -0500

Oh boy. Now you've got me thinking. My almost-6 year old is ambi. I don't
mean "hasn't developed a preference", I mean ambi. He writes right-handed,
eats left-handed (actually fork left-handed and chopsticks right-handed),
colors both-handed but more often right, ties his shoelaces exactly mirror
image from the way I do it (I'm a rightie), switch-hits......

Tane Akamatsu

Phil Graham wrote:

> Does anyone know much about differences in the ways left-handed people
> learn stuff (indeed, do they learn fundamentally differently? Does it have
> anything to do with left-right handedness ? I dunno ...). I ask because I
> watched a small triumph as my son Matt (6) finally learned to tie his
> shoelaces.
>
> When he managed to do it, the way he did it was not only completely swapped
> around from left to right from the way I had continually shown him, but
> also from front to back. Watching him overcome a relatively large obstacle,
> it dawned on me how completely differently from me he interprets suff
> spatially. I've noticed differences before, but this particular instance
> really exaggerated the different way he sees stuff to me and the other
> right-handers he's surrounded by.
>
> Phil
>
>
> Phil Graham
> pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au
> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html