Links and resources
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Here are some web links which provide all kinds of information about left handedness. Since websites do come and go, we make a point of testing these on a regular basis, but apologies if there happens to be a link that doesn’t work. |
General
Left-handers’ Day - all about Left-handers’ Day on August 13
Usenet Guide to FAQs for left handers
Wikipedia’s information about left handedness
Lefthandedness - aspects of everyday life that are geared towards right-handed people
by Lucas Pereira
Lefthandside - a website especially for left-handed designers and artists
Left-Handedness - Nature or Nurture, Blessing or Curse? A left-handed research paper by Molly Kalhaut
Crochet lessons for left handers
A video on how to crochet left handed
The Southpaw Manifesto - contains a list of left-handed celebrities, how to say left handed in other languages, and many articles
Left handed styles of writing from Nibs.com, a fountain pen site
Children
Teaching left handers to write – from the Handedness Research Institute
Lefthandedchildren.org - all the information and advice you'll need to help left-handed children from nursery right through their school days
When Left is Right, Left-Handed Toddlers by Carma Haley Shoemaker
Writing with the Left Hand - correct techniques for teaching left-handed children to write, draw and colour with their left hand
Teaching handwriting to left handers by Shawn Landis
Trivia
Left-handed trivia from Cool Quiz
More left-handed trivia
Famous left handers from Cool Quiz
Resources
Great sources of information and useful links by fellow lefties:
Being Left Handed – a useful resource website from left hander Stephen Mack
GAUCHE! Left-Handers in Society. A resource guide & forum from MK Holder
Music
Lefthandedguitarplayer - a blog on how to play a right handed guitar left handed.
Associations
The World Association of Lefthanded Golfers (WALG)
Canadian National Association of Lefthanded Golfers
The Association of Left Handers (India)
Articles
More Evidence that Lefties have the Right Stuff by Richard Morin
Creative and Opinionated: Why being left is now all right by Dara O’Brien
Gene for left-handedness is found
Left handers ‘think’ more quickly
The Left-Handed Liberation Front
Left-handedness common in Ice Age by Dr David Whitehouse
Left-handers on roll as numbers triple by John Elliott
Sinister obsession - a splenetic outburst by Conan Doyle reveals just how differently left-handed batters were once viewed
Rise up, Ye Southpaws - discusses the increased acceptance of lefthandedness in Japan.
Gene for left-handed trait discovered by Kate Ravilious
A study from the University of Utrecht on pathological left handedness
‘Left handed guitarists’ by Douglas J Noble the music journalist, guitar instructor and musician
I confess, I'm a gibble-fisted left-hander by Jasper Gerard
The Left-Handed Advantage - they may have higher health risks, but lefties enjoy element of surprise by Amanda Onion
Leonardo, left-handed draughtsman and writer by Carmen C. Bambach
The sinister handed by Adrian E Flatt MD, FRCS
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