Given proper instruction and non-hostile equipment, left-handers can and do write as well as right-handers. (Proof: left-handed pro calligraphers, such as Gaynor Goffe and Timothy Noad.)

Almost every letter I get from a lefty (or from a lefty's mother, father, or teacher) asks for good books or series to teach handwriting to left-handers. So far, I know of only one that I can recommend:-



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To anyone who writes left-handed, or who teaches left-handers, I strongly recommend the new series

The UK edition (which the firm ships anywhere in the world) appeared in spring of 2006. (The company plans Canadian and USA editions for

2007.)

For a taste of just what Robin's Wood has to offer the world's left-handed millions, download free sample pages from a couple of the LEFT HAND WRITING SKILLS books. Among other things: if you look at the lower right-hand corner of each page, you'll note that the series' authors (Mark and Heather Stewart) have found a most ingenious and (when properly understood) most effective means of ensuring that left-handed writers learn to position their writing-books or other paper properly for left-handed writing (instead of just struggling along by themselves to find a position, or attempting to copy the paper-position of right-handers, as too many lefties without proper guidance will inadvertently tend to do.)

If and when you order, please let the company know that you heard from me about their series. You can most easily do so by e-mailing the publisher, Christopher J. Marshall, at cm@robinswoodpress.com.

And don't forget this free YouTube video, WRITING LEFT-HANDED: 12 minutes and 8 seconds chock-full of tips, brought to the world by Anything Left-Handed, the planet's BIGGEST supply-source for left-handed items including handwriting items. At Anything Left-Handed, you can buy left-handed calligraphy sets and anything else left-handed you can imagine ... and even join (FREE!) the Left-Handers' Club to receive newsletters and more!

On a lighter note ... when you love a lefty, let that special sinistral somebody know it! For International Left-Hander's Day (August 13) or any time of the year, send your favorite lefty a Free Left-Hander's E-Card! ...

Here is an article that stuides the effect on the brain of forcing from left handers to write with right hand: Nurture versus Nature: Long-Term Impact of Forced Right-Handedness on Structure of Pericentral Cortex and Basal Ganglia

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