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  2. Handedness - Wikipedia

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    Usually the left-handed child needs to be taught how to write correctly with the left hand, since discovering a comfortable left-handed writing method on one's own may not be straightforward. [126] [127] In the Soviet school system, all left-handed children were forced to write with their right hand. [128] [129]

  3. List of children's books featuring characters with limb ...

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    Features several characters with limb differences, including a boy with a prosthetic right leg, a boy with a prosthetic left leg, a boy with two short fingers on his left hand, and a girl without a left hand. 2021 Picture book The Bare Naked Book [21] Kathy Stinson/Meilssa Cho Depiction of many people, including some with limb differences. 2021

  4. Twins and handedness - Wikipedia

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    If the parents are both right-handed, in dizygotic and monozygotic twins there is a 21% chance of one being left-handed. If one parent is left-handed, in DZ and MZ twins there is a 57% chance of one being left-handed. If both parents are left-handed, it is almost certain one twin will be left-handed. [citation needed]

  5. 24 Things You Didn't Know About Left-Handed People - AOL

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    Older Women Have More Left-Handed Babies. According to one Canadian study, women in their 30s and 40s were far more likely to have left-handed children than younger women. A study of 2,228 college ...

  6. Laterality - Wikipedia

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    In the sport of cricket, some players may find that they are more comfortable bowling with their left or right hand, but batting with the other hand. Approximate statistics, complied in 1981, are given below: [4] Favoring right hand: 88.2%; Favoring right foot: 81.0%; Favoring right eye: 71.1%; Favoring right ear: 59.1%; Same hand and foot: 84%

  7. Brain asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    An example would include handedness. Handedness can result from asymmetry in the motor cortex of one hemisphere. For right handed individuals, since the brain operates the contralateral side of the body, they could have a more induced motor cortex in the left hemisphere.

  8. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    Left Behind increased the freedom of local families to make educational decisions for their children, while holding individual schools accountable for achievement results The ultimate goal of the law is to help all children achieve excellence in terms of their academic performance in the areas of math, English and science.

  9. Ambidexterity - Wikipedia

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    Michael Clarke is naturally a left handed person who bowls left handed but bats right handed. Akshay Karnewar is an ambidextrous bowler. Originally, he only bowled with his right hand, but since he does everything else with his left hand, he was taught to bowl left-handed as well but needs to signal to the umpire when he switches hands when ...