Left-handed laterality, a problem and a solution

Abstract

In this article, a theoretical review of educational and historical-social status of people with left-handed laterality is provided as well as formation process of laterality, which served as the basis for carrying out of a correlational study between reading comprehension and self-concept of left-handed schoolchildren in the second and third grade of primary education, likewise variables between left-handed and right-handed schoolchildren are compared. These results in this article are also presented.
The condition of left-hander has been seen, throughout human history, as something negative and even dangerous, so that all the efforts were made to change this situation in the child, contravening with this to their true nature, since left-handed laterality has a genetic basis that explains her expression. However, since left-hander approximately are equivalent to 10% of the world population, it is a human group that has received little attention, and therefore, their problems that arise in them are the least underserved, generating thus the need to develop their own adaptive strategies that allow to them a proper insertion to a social environment contrary to his nature.