Help for Left Handed children, their parents and teachers

August 13th each year is International Left-Handers Day - click the image to find out more

Who are we?

We are committed to improving teaching for our left-handed children in schools, not only in handwriting, but in other areas of the curriculum, where unnecessary hurdles and lack of guidance are hindering our children’s progress, often leading to them developing awkward and inefficient habits, as they try to adapt to right-handed tools and positioning.

How do we know what we are talking about?

The Left-Handers Club now has over 100,000 members spread all round the world and over the years we have received many thousands of requests for help and advice. We have also been running an ongoing “left-handedness” survey for more than 25 years and, several years ago, our survey on left-handers school experiences

With this huge amount of information and practical experience and over 40 years history of sourcing and developing left-handed products, we are probably the world’s leading experts on all the practical issues related to left-handers and left-handed children in particular. We hope that through this site we can help you and your family in some small way.

The following products are available to buy direct from this site:

Guides to help left-handed children, their parents and teachers

We are putting all the knowledge we have about helping young left-handed children (and older ones!) into a series of practical guides. These are the ones we have completed so far – Click any of the images below for more information about these guides / to purchase them:

Helping pre-school children — Click on any image above for more info about the guide and / or to purchase them

Left handed letter formation guide — Click on any image above for more info about the guide and / or to purchase them

Are left-handed children at a disadvantage?

There is absolutely no reason why your left-handed child should be at any disadvantage at school or home, Indeed, it is very common for left-handers to excel in many subjects, including sport and art. All they require is the correct guidance, relevant to a left-hander, and where necessary, the correct equipment, when learning a new skill. For example, with handwriting, you will see from this site that the techniques for teaching left-handers to write correctly are very simple and easy to apply. With just a few minutes specific guidance, your left-handed child can be shown a writing method that will enable them to develop a comfortable, neat and efficient writing style that will benefit them their whole life. Aching wrist, smudged work, bad posture and slow writing will no longer be problems. However, this is not the technique that right-handers need to adopt for handwriting, and many teachers are unaware of the subtle yet vital differences in posture, grip and letter formation. As a result, an overwhelming number of our left-handed students are having their specific needs ignored in the classroom, and are developing poor writing and posture as a result.

And click here to see what people gave as some of the advantages of lefthandedness

Thank you for your feedback

We would like to thank the many thousands of parents and teachers who have visited our websites, shop & various events for the positive feedback and support you have given us. We are delighted that so many children are benefiting from the techniques and teaching aids we now have available. We welcome your feedback, and any new hints or tips you have found to work well for left-handed children.

We hope the information we provide here will help you and that you will be able to recommend our site to other parents and teachers. If you need any further guidance please let us know.