LEFT-HANDED CHILDREN.
USUALLY WORST WRITERS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. No attempt is made in most of the Dunedin : primary schools to convert naturally left-handed children to the use of their right hands. Often a little child in the primer class shows a tendency to use its left hand and unless it responds to the coaxing of the teacher to use its right, it is allowed to follow its natural bent. . Teachers in Dunedin have adopted this attitude because the announcement by the Guy's Hospital expert that the left-handed child's nervous balance is upset by forcing him to use his right hand, and that stuttering often develops, is not altogether new.
On the average not two per cent of primary school children are left-handed, but those who are left-handed are the worst writers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 9
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134LEFT-HANDED CHILDREN. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 9
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