Mixed eye and hand dominance - is it a problem?

[Vale]

Hi,

I have read in a old book that mixed dominance does have an effect on the person's ability to learn. Apparently your foot, eye, and ear should be dominant on the same side as your dominant hand.

I have tested my 3 years old son and I discovered that he has eye and hand mixed dominance.

(I must say that my son seems very, very clever to me and he is bilingual at the age of 3).

The good news is that the eye dominance can be shifted back to the proper eye by occluding (covering or patching) the eye that is dominant for half an hour a day and it is best if it is done as early as possible to prevent problems.

Did anyone come accross this issue before, and have you got suggestions on how to switch the eye dominace?

Is it important the lenght of the exercise sessions? I must do half an hour a day or can I do 10 minutes sessions 3 times a day?

Thanks,
Vale

Both my mother and I are left handed and right eyed. Both of us graduates, both of us successful.

I have never heard that this should be corrected (in fact, my dad is a doctor and I am sure would have been horrified if anyone had tried to "correct" me).

If anything, I beleive that it is an advantage and as I am having to make more use of both hemispheres. left handers have this advantage already - but instead of being "fully" swapped around, left handed/right eyed people are already making more use of the right hemisphere: the creative half but are also making use of the left hemisphere.

That would certainly "fit" in my case as I was/am good at both arts and sciences and could have studied either at Uni. In fact, part way in to my 1st year, I did consider changing from Arts to Science (possible at the Scottish Uni I was at).

EvenBetaDad, Testing for eye dominance is easy.

You ask your child to watch through a tube or a keyhole, or you put a peace of paper with a hole in front of your face and ask your child to find your nose. The child will watch with the dominant eyes.

It seems that mixed dominance doesn't cause any problem to some people.

May be there are some other factors that if combined with mixed dominance can cause dyslexia or dyscalculia ...

I recall to have read something about being creative, apparently helps to memorise information, because you use both brain hemisphere ...something like that.

As I said on other thread, I have very poor eyesight in right eye, but am right-handed. Never caused me any problems.

Vale* - I just did it. DS1 is right handed all the way through. DS2 is left handed eye and hand and right hand feet.

DS2 can draw in stereoscope and mirror write at will so it is as if he can 'see both points of view' at the same time in his mind.

According to that book what it is important is that the eye is dominant on the same side as your dominant hand,so left handed eye and hand is fine.

Leonardo da Vinci often used mirror writing, he probably was left handed genius.

Anyway nowadays people who got dyslexia or dyscalculia are not held back because of it, they can have a successful academic life, career etc...

But unfortunately that doesn't mean that dyslexia or dyscalculia are not challenging.