• Sep. 13, 2008
Writing Woes Solved
Well, OK. Maybe the writing woes are not solved, but I hope we at least have some stepping stones!
As I’ve been reading up on right brain learning, I’ve been learning all kinds of interesting ideas that I hope will really help Taylor. For instance, I’ve learned how to tell if you are left eye dominant or right eye dominant. It’s really quite easy. Just cut a small hole in the center of a piece of paper then have your child find something through the hole while their arms are fully extended holding the paper. After they have their target tell them to hold the paper very still while you go behind them and cover up each eye one at a time. If the target disappears when you cover the right eye then they are right eye dominant. If the target disappears when you cover the left eye, then they are left eye dominant. Pretty simple, but why does it matter? Good question!
Apparently if you are right handed (right hand dominant) and left eye dominant that can cause some problems with writing. The same goes for being left handed and right eye dominant. It’s called being mixed dominant. Bet you never could have thought of that one. J
If you think you may have a right brain child and you haven’t visited this website yet, do it! The articles are great and FREE!
The first article I read was Smart Kids Who Hate to Write. They list symptoms of having a block in the visual/motor system aka- writing. Taylor had quite a few of the such as letter reversals after age 7, poor spacing in a sentence, writing is slow and hard to do, copywork takes forever, great stories told out loud but not much written down, sloppy writing, and a hard time telling left and right. Phew, it was like they were sitting here with me watching Taylor work! There are also some possible solutions listed that I am still learning more about such as exercises to establish a midline. Sorry I can’t tell you much more about that, I’m still learning myself!
