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Has anyone come across any literature stating when hand dominance is determined in childhood?

Tanya in NY

I really don't know. I'm ROBPI so I write with my left hand--but I hop on my right foot. Would I have been right handed? No idea. My dad was left handed--and forced to write with his right hand--my mom and brother are right handed. I owuld think that parents with school age children may be able to answer your question

I am robpi and do most things left handed. In school they made me switch and write with my right OBPI hand... boy was that painful. But the rule in the "good old days" was,if I could use my hand enough to hold a pencil I had to write right handed like the rest of the world!

If left on my own I probably would not do anything right handed. My mother had assigned tasks for each hand. I have small motor cordination in both hands. I suffered from some of the symptoms of person who lost their dominante hand... my right leg is a bit weak and I have Horner's so it would be hard to tell which was truly my dominate hand.

I put on my contact lens and make up with my unaffected hand. I only write with my right hand and iron... I can write on a blackboard with my left hand with chalk.... and the handwritting is the same... strange... I don't know which hand to paint with so I do it with both... depends on which hand is more tired... I do not have hand to mouth nor can I supinate so all activities that require those skills are accomplished by using my so called un-affected hand and arm... I have many people in my family who are left handed so it would be hard to tell what I should have been.
This is truly a tough question.
Kath