Help! Left handed child

The child should uses whatever the dominant hand is. Teaching sign language to a lefty is alot easier than teaching a lefty how to crochet. My ex-hubby is lefty and I had to teach him how to crochet before we could teach his niece, another lefty) to crochet. I also have two blood relatives that are southpaws. My mother's boyfriend is another lefty. Way too many leftys in my family!!! :giggle:
 
Buffalo said:
The child should uses whatever the dominant hand is. Teaching sign language to a lefty is alot easier than teaching a lefty how to crochet. My ex-hubby is lefty and I had to teach him how to crochet before we could teach his niece, another lefty) to crochet. I also have two blood relatives that are southpaws. My mother's boyfriend is another lefty. Way too many leftys in my family!!! :giggle:
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Sounds like you're outnumbered! :giggle:
 
That's better than what I am doing right now. I have been signing with both hands rather than just with my dominant hand. Do I even really have dominant hand...I wonder.

It can be so confusing if you are trying to sign "major", but ended up signing "minor."
 
VamPyroX said:
Signing left-handed is like writing left-handed... let it happen.

I think teaching sign language to a left-handed person is easier... just like looking in a mirror.

I had a teacher in elementary school who was so cruel that she would force her deaf left-handed students to sign and write right-handed. This caused those students to fall behind in school and resulted in the students' parents reporting on the teacher. This teacher finally stopped... after all, she retired. Whew!
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If I was there with that teacher, I would have tied her right hand behind her back and forced her to do everything with her left hand! Teachers like that should NOT be in the field of education!

My ex hubby told me that his parents tied his brother's left hand behind his back when he was a child to force him to be right-handed cuz in their culture (Mexican) left-handeness is a sign of homosexuality. I told my ex that was the most ridiculous thing I have ever been told but different cultures view things differently. His brother (31 years old now) still writes with his right hand but it is obvious that it is unnatural for him.
 
I'm a lefty myself, I've never had anyone correct me in any way but yet they do say "oh you're a lefty" but I find that some people do have a hard time with my signing.. I'm not sure if its me or if its the way i sign. but i've never had anyone criticizing or try to change the way I sign.
 
I'm a lefty that naturally signs right handed (mostly) but every now and then I'll swap my dominant hand in a conversation for just a few signs. I never noticed it, but my ASL teacher did and basically she said it didn't matter which hand was dominant, just pick one and stick with it. Swapping in a conversation or phrase can be confusing.

I agree with everyone else; the teacher is just plain WRONG to force a switch.
 
I'm left handed and always signed using it as dominant. Only problem I ever had was teacher's objections -- Thankfully that discrimination no longer exists.
 
I'm a lefty here too, and I sign and write left handed. In elementary school I was forced to write cursive right handed, and I was 18 until I could write cursive left handed, it was a pain. Let her sign how she is comfortable.


Nick
 
NickCameron1031 said:
I'm a lefty here too, and I sign and write left handed. In elementary school I was forced to write cursive right handed, and I was 18 until I could write cursive left handed, it was a pain. Let her sign how she is comfortable.


Nick
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That sucks!

There were a lot of things in the past that didn't make sense.

Left-handed was considered a flaw that should be corrected. :(
 
Here's a link out of many (just google on 'left-handed history'): left-handed@Everything2.com

I also have heard that lefties have higher number of accidents because they were using tools that is designed for right-handed. You lefties better buy left-handed products and be safe.
 
i'm trying to teach my [hearing] friend ASL. . .mostly so that she and i can communicate [we do this in chorus, when she's across the room in the soprano section trying to tell me something, but i can't lipread from that far away, so we use exaggarated sign.] but also because, with our chorus, we translate songs into [very grammatically incorrect] ASL [more like SEE, actually] for the concerts.

the thing is, my friend is lefthanded. i'm trying to teach her to sign right-hand-dominant, cuse when we [sometimes just the two of us, sometimes a group of four] sign, it has to be all of us with the same hand or else it looks awkward--three of us are rightys and she's the only southpaw. when it's just the two of us performing, i don't mind her signing lefty cuse it creates a cool mirror effect.

however, my question is whether i should teach her to sign [not for performing, just to talk to me] right or left. i've heard that it's awkward to swap [she signs the words she's learned for the songs righty, regardless of whether or not we're performing.] but i've also heard that it's bad to force a lefty to sign righthanded.

any input???


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