Have you got suggestions on how to switch the eye dominace?

[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.

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, while the child is engaged in task that requires using is dominant hand such as drawring, colouring, cutting with scissors etc...

The problem is that my 3 years old enjoys this activities for 10 minutes and then gets bored.

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

[Vale]

You are right I need to do more research, the mind is such a complecated thing and to find such a simplistic way to look at it. I definetely need an expert advice, but I think the people on the forum have been an invaluable resource.

Isenhart7, I came to the conclusion that "mixed up" dominance is not a problem.

[Vale]

Ronaldino,

I don't feel there is an issue, I read that chapter about laterality in that book by pure coincidence. I was looking which skills my child had to develop before starting school.

However I have already left a message on the doctor answerphone and called a specialist secretary and I am waiting for them to call me back for an appointement. So if there was a problem, I would do all I can to help him.

In the meantime I visited the forum to see if there was anyone out there that knew anything about mixed dominance and that could give me some advice.

I think it has been really useful to talk to all of you! I got really helpful advice, shared experiences etc..

Thank you.

[isenhart7]

Yes, call me mixed up but I question what science, if any, is behind the thought that "your foot, eye, and ear should be dominant on the same side as your dominant hand".

[TotalChaos]

vale - agree with ronaldinhio - if you feel there is an issue, get a proper medical checkup or optician check up.

[MadameCastafiore]

One question - WHY?

[mrz]

I have mixed dominance and quite happily swap hands for different tasks always seen it as a bonus not a problem.

[Ronaldinhio]

Vale is this two different threads you have started about this subject?

Why the big worry?
IME as evidenced on the other thread it has certainly never been a problem or stop for me...

Why not seek the wisdom of a specialist consultant rather than glean heresay evidence on here...tis the only answer if you are really worried

[Vale]

Isenhart7, I don't know the science behind it.

It seems that mixed dominance didn't cause any problem to you, so hopefully it is an incorrect theory.

[Ronaldinhio]

Don't bother it's a load of old tosh

[isenhart7]

I am right handed but left eye dominant-I know this from archery and shooting but it seems to me that means that the left hemisphere of the brain is dominant in both cases, no? So wouldn't being dominant on one side or the other-right handed, right footed, right eyed be the potential "problem"-meaning mixed brain hemisphere dominance?

[cory]

I am virtually blind on the eye which is on the same side as my dominant hand. And I have still been able to learn to read 8 or so languages, and have a reasonably successful academic career.

[Vale]

No, my son is right-handed and left eyed, although when he's got the right hand busy, he uses quite confortably the left hand.

Thank you Maverick your story is really reassuring.

Certainly I need to do more reseach before thinking of remedy it, hopefully he is perfectly fine!

[isenhart7]

I wouldn't worry too much about it either but just out of curiosity is your son left-handed?

[maverick]

Don't worry about it.

This is an old belief and has no basis in reality.

Just for the record, I have mixed dominance myself; I'm left handed but right eyed, and it's caused me no trouble whatsoever. I learnt to read easily before school age.