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At What Age Can Children Recognise Left From Right Hand?
Posted in Ask Ronit, Education & Learning, Parenting
by Ronit Baras on October 18th, 2007
Tags: child care, children, early childhood, education, kids, kindergarten, learning disabilities, parenting, special education, teaching, toddlers
Kids can tell left from right as early as 3 years. Every kid has a bank of words in their brain. For every kid the bank is a different size. Some kids need to hear a word 700 hundred times before they “know” the meaning of that word and can use it. Some kids with learning difficulties need lots more. Keep saying it to add to your child’s bank.
But…
Never, never, never teach right with left at the same time. This is the mistake that creates adults with difficulties with left and right or difficulties recognizing b and d. Never teach them together. Pick one (if you kid is right handed, teach right, if he is left handed only teach left) and make sure that for him there is the right hand and “the other hand” for a long time before you introduce the left.
I am a special education teacher. You won’t believe how many problems there are only because similar things were introduced together and the kids (and grown ups) can’t tell which one is which.
So the age is not the important thing, but the way they learn it.
Ronit Baras
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That is really interesting. I have a hard time with right left.
Hi qtpies7, ( I like you name)
I had it too when I was young. I really thought it is because something is wrong with me until I studied special education and realised I was OK. Did you find tricks to tell which one is which?
Ronit