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In today’s episode we dive into WHY we believe, and why research shows, that establishing hand dominance is vital to success with a variety of daily activities.
We also talk about what it looks like if a child is struggling to establish hand dominance and of course, we give you our favorite tips and tricks to help!
Stick around to the end to listen to us answer two listener questions!
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Tenora Watt
March 01, 2022
Hey ladies really enjoy your podcast and turn others on to it all the time. I’m a COTA practicing school based OT in Hawaii. I always think that when I turn on your podcast, it’s like chatting with girlfriends.
So this episode about hand dominance, I wanted to share that ambidextrous is the ability to complete tasks at the same skill level with both right and left hands. When a person writes with one hand and then throws with the other, that is referred to as mixed dominance. I been in plenty of meetings where parents are so excited that their child uses both hand and have had to explain the differences.
Keep doing what you’re doing. You both are fabulous!
Aloha and Mahalo
Tenora