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Vol.05 Issue03 2025
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81-84
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Psychological characteristics of left-handed children
Usmanova Sevara Akmalovna
Tashkent University of Applied Sciences, Teacher of the Department of Psychology, Uzbekistan
Received:
28 January 2025;
Accepted:
27 February 2025;
Published:
29 March 2025
Abstract:
Mental characteristics of left-handers.Left-handed children have their own psychological characteristics,
but they are simply the result of a peculiar functioning of the brain. Usually, such babies are more sensitive,
excitable, impressionable, and are not always able to control their own emotions, which leads to instability and
mood swings.
Keywords:
Left-handed, right-handed, right hemisphere, child, children, people, adaptation, creative thinking.
Introduction:
Left
—
handed children - why they act like
that and what psychological characteristics do they
have in comparison with right-handed people?
In fact, these are the same children who have a good
reason for the appearance of such a vivid and
sometimes disturbing feature.
It is not easy for them to adapt independently in the
modern world, created for right
—
handers, so the task
of adults is to help kids in this at the initial stage of life.
WHO ARE LEFTIES?
The most important thing that parents of unusual
children should understand is that they gave life to a
special child and this is their great luck! A lefty is an
emotional, trusting, sincere person who has developed
creative abilities at the genetic level. Kids show a desire
to get to know the world of creativity from an early age.
It is generally accepted that left
—
handedness is a
normal phenomenon.
The main thing is timely diagnosis, because before the
age of five, children have obvious signs of left
—
handedness that are not pronounced enough.
From a year to a year and a half, an ordinary healthy
child does not pay attention to which hand is leading
him when he picks up a spoon, cup or toy. Meanwhile,
if you measure their strength indicators, then right-
handers will have higher strength in their right hand
than in their left. If you do not focus the baby's
attention on which hand he eats, draws, and plays with,
then it may well turn out that when the baby grows up,
he will be able to control both his left and right hands
with equal success.
It is important to understand that left
—
handedness is
by no means a pathology or a deviation from the norm.
This means that left-handed children do not need to be
retrained to use their right hand. It was noted that
toddlers who had been trying to retrain since childhood
quickly got tired, lost their appetite, suffered
headaches and sleep disorders, and in some cases even
stuttered. All this indicates that such measures were a
serious stress for the child and his consciousness
actively resisted them.
Mental characteristics of left-handers
Left-handed children have their own psychological
characteristics, but they are simply the result of a
peculiar functioning of the brain. Usually, such babies
are more sensitive, excitable, impressionable, and are
not always able to control their own emotions, which
leads to instability and mood swings.
It is very possible that a lefty will start talking a little
later than his peers, in addition, up to a certain age he
will have difficulty identifying the right and left sides.
Such children may have certain difficulties in the
classroom, which will be discussed in more detail
below. In some cases, left-handed children give the
impression of being slow and slow-thinking.
Does all this mean that the kid is destined for the fate
of a student and a person with average success? Of
course not. Even experiencing temporary learning
difficulties, the child will very soon learn to cope with
them, adapt to society and prove himself to be quite a
successful and promising personality. To do this,
however, he will have to work hard.
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Along with some of their features, kids with a leading
left hand have an extraordinary imagination, well-
developed imaginative thinking, clearly expressed
preferences, and artistic abilities. Usually left-handed
children are calm about the material side of life and pay
more attention to its creative side. Such a kid will never
let the people around him get bored!
Does lefty need help?
Of course, children who mostly use their left hand as a
guide have some psychological characteristics and
need adult’s
help, at least during their formation as
individuals and at the beginning of their studies.
It will be very important to choose equipment specially
adapted for lefties: a desk, writing and drawing
supplies.
In addition, you will need to talk with the child about
the fact that the left hand instead of the right as the
leading one is not a disability, but just a feature that can
even be useful in life.
A child should understand that he is no worse than
other children, and in some ways even surpasses them.
As a confirmation of their words, grown-up children can
cite examples of famous personalities who were also
left-handed, while achieving worldwide recognition.
These are Alexander Pushkin, Albert Einstein, Michael
Jackson and many others. The Internet can help you
–
you can probably find famous lefties in any field of
activity, and if you give such examples from the field of
interests of a child, this will become an additional
motivator for his development.
Causes of left-handedness
The reasons why children become left-handed are very
different. Most often it is:
-genetic predisposition;
-lesions of the left hemisphere;
-forced or intentional left-handedness.
So, the most common reason is still heredity. To date,
the principles of transmission of left-handedness are
not yet known, but we can say for sure that in families
where at least one parent is left-handed, left-handed
children are born most often. In the vast majority of
cases, genetic left-handers do not have any
developmental disorders, they develop in the same
way as all other children, and differ from them only in
this feature.
The so
–
called compensatory left-handedness is directly
related to brain damage, most often in the left
hemisphere. Since it is the left hemisphere that is
responsible for the work of the right bow, in case of
damage in its area, the functions inherent in it can take
over the right hemisphere.
As a result, children become left-handed, first in the
process of performing household activities, and then
during learning (drawing, writing, etc.). In such
children, one can often observe deviations in the
development of speech and motor skills. But left
–
handedness in this case is not their cause or
consequence, these deviations are the result of
malfunctions in certain areas of the brain.
The third type of left
–
handedness in right-handed
children from birth is caused by trauma or the desire to
adopt left-handedness from friends or relatives.
And another variant of left
—
handedness is with the
prefix "pseudo". By the age of five, children already
have the dominance of one of the two hemispheres of
the brain. At the same time, some babies have such a
feature of the brain that causes atypia of mental
development, which becomes an obstacle to the
formation of interhemispheric interaction. Most often,
such children use both hands equally well.
The lack of interhemispheric interaction is the only
reason that cannot directly affect the development of
left
—
handedness. Therefore, with its timely diagnosis,
it will be possible to work with the child on the
development of right-handedness.
In addition, it can be noted that a child can become
left
–
handed not on a physical level, but on a
psychological level - a "hidden lefty": when a child has
all the signs of a lefty, while his right hand remains the
main one. In such people, the right hemisphere is
dominant.
Comparative characteristics of left-handers and right-
handers
Today, there are several main opinions about the
abilities possessed by left-handed children compared
to right-handed ones. One of the opinions is based on
the fact that the neuropsychiatric activity of left-
handers is significantly worse than that of right-
handers. Another view is that the abilities of children
with dominant right and left hands do not differ for the
worse or for the better.
There is a third opinion. According to him, left-handed
children have high rates of neuropsychiatric activity
compared to right-handed children and are capable of
accelerated adaptation to the conditions of the outside
world. Historical figures confirming this belief are Julius
Caesar, Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci and
others.
All three opinions about the characteristics of left-
handed children have a right to exist, and they all
correspond to the main concepts of the appearance of
left-handedness, complementing each other.
It is believed that the connections between the
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hemispheres of the brain in left-handers are not as
strong as in right-handers, so perhaps they are more
active in creativity, because their thinking is not limited
by rigid limits.
The other side of the coin is the delayed formation of
basic skills that require active interaction between the
two hemispheres of the brain.
Left-handed children show an increased number of
psychophysiological characteristics, and this is a proven
fact. In addition, it is worth talking about the ability of
children with a dominant left or right hand to react to
odors. For example, left-handers are able to assess
unpleasant odors with maximum accuracy. Right-
handed people remain more sensitive to pleasant
smells and positive emotions.
Thus, left-handers tend to be pessimistic, while right-
handers tend to remain optimistic.
Teaching left-handed children at school: the main
problems
Psychologists claim that children with a dominant left
hand have certain difficulties in the learning process at
school, at least more than right-handed children. Left
—
handers most often face problems in learning to read,
write, and count - skills that require full visual
perception. Certain disorders of this perception, along
with disorders of visual-motor coordination and visual
memory, lead to the formation of such problems:
slow perception and memorization of letters in the
process of learning to read;
the formation of a visual image of numbers and letters
with confusion regarding elements that are similar in
configuration;
confusion of similar shaped geometric shapes;
unstable handwriting;
writing letters in a mirror image;
slow-motion writing.
As a separate point, it is worth considering one of the
main problems of teaching a left-handed child at
school: his retraining. As noted above, this process
negatively affects the overall mental and physical
condition of the baby.
Parents should step in if retraining takes place in the
case of their child who has entered school, and explain
to the teacher that it's not just about the left leading
hand, but also about the functioning of the cerebral
hemispheres.
Intentional retraining can cause speech disorders and
emotional depression of the child. The statistics are
disappointing, confirming the fact that every third
student with a stutter is a left
—
handed person who
was retrained at the time.
Left-handed children often suffer from neurosis, and
this issue continues to be deeply studied to this day.
Kids really exhaust themselves with permanent school
fears (fear of being judged by classmates, teachers), but
only in cases when parents show increased anxiety
about their left-handedness.
How can we help left
—
handed children adapt?
From all of the above, we can conclude that it is
unnatural to change what is inherent in nature, so the
right decision is to help left-handed children adapt to
the conditions of the world around them.
Methods of teaching left-handed people to write and
read have not yet been developed in the CIS countries,
at least in public schools. There are no such methods in
the lessons of labor and art. That is why left-handed
children have no other option but to adapt to the right-
handed world. To make this task easier for them, adults
can:
help to organize a workplace for the child so that the
light falls on the right;
not to focus the child's attention on right-leaning and
continuous writing;
explain the algorithms of motor actions;
play and perform exercises that promote the
development of motor skills and visual perception;
be positive about the peculiarities of the baby.
In conclusion, we note that the psychological and some
physical features of left-handed children should not be
considered oddities or defects. A left
—
handed person
is just as much a full-fledged member of society as a
right-handed person. Moreover, he has every
opportunity to develop his sometimes unconventional
abilities if adults provide all possible help, support and
understanding.
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