CHILDREN AND HANDEDNESS: MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: WHAT IS IT THAT DECIDES IF WE ARE RIGHT OR LEFT HANDED? -- Introduction -- Why are the two hands different? -- So are left handers just freaks? -- What pressure is there on left handers? -- The Way that Hand Preference Works -- An Example -- Manual Specialization -- Handedness of brain lateralization -- Why do we need a lateralized brain? -- Development of handedness -- How does lateralization apply to such situations? -- Why is the development of handedness unstable? -- Origins of handedness -- Summary -- Chapter 3: CHILDREN WHO ARE MIXED HANDED (INCLUDING AMBIDEXTROUS ORAMBIVALENT) -- Introduction -- Concept and definition of Mixed Handed People -- Ambidexterity in non-human species -- Mixed Handedness and Ambidexterity -- What sort of information does the proficiency measurement give us? -- Causes of ambidexterity or mixed handedness -- Hand proficiency impact on different abilities -- Other kinds of symmetry in the body -- Summary -- Chapter 4: THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF HANDEDNESS (WHETHER RIGHT, LEFT OR MIXED OR SWITCHING) -- Introduction -- What it means to be strongly right handed -- Negative effects of being right handed -- What it means to be strongly left handed -- Negative effects of Left Handedness -- Autism -- Cerebral palsy -- Dyslexia -- Epilepsy -- Mental retardation -- Schizophrenia -- What it means to be mixed handed -- Negative effects of mixed handedness -- Negative effects of switching -- Summary -- Chapter 5: GAMES TO PLAY AT HOME -- Introduction -- Understanding the Kanizsa Triangle -- Thurston's Hand Test -- Stroop Task Online -- Tapley and Bryden Handedness Measure -- Chapter 6: TESTING FOR HANDEDNESS -- Introduction.

Specific Instructions for the administration of the individual tests in the WatHand Box Test (WBT) -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Strengths of this test -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 2. Lifting a cupboard door -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 3. Picking up a candy dispenser that was behind thecupboard -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 4. Using a toy hammer -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 5. Tossing a ball at a Target -- Setup -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 6. Opening a lock with a key -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 7. Using a screw driver -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 8. Pushing small buttons on a gadget (e.g. a mobile'phone) -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Some other simple tests -- Test Number 10. Scribbling/ Tracing/ Coloring/ Drawing/ Writing -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 11. Using Scissors -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 12 Slicing Toast -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 13. Stirring a drink -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice.

Trials -- Record -- Likely difficulties with this test -- Test Number 14. Placing Pegs in peg board -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Test Number 15. Finger Tapping Test -- Set-up -- Task -- Demonstration -- Practice -- Trials -- Record -- Chapter 7: ISSUES SURROUNDING TESTING -- When to do the tests -- Where to do the tests -- The Results -- Reliability and validity -- Dyspraxia -- Chapter 8: IMPROVING HAND PROFICIENCY -- Introduction -- The Current Situation -- The Aim of This Chapter -- Fine Manual Skills -- Development of fine manual skills -- Gross Manual Skills -- Development of Gross Manual Skills -- Summary -- Chapter 9: SO YOU'RE LEFT HANDED! -- Chapter 10: CONCLUSION -- So what had changed to cause this new problem? -- Aren't the lifestyle changes essential? -- Child development -- The solution? -- REFERENCES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 6 -- Appendix 7 -- Appendix 8 -- INDEX.