Lefthanders Websites

At Indiana University (M.K. Holder, Ph.D.). You can participate in the study by filling out an online questionnaire. Site also has links to information (both serious and fun) of interest to left-handers.

A resource guide and forum. Left-handers speak to parents, teachers, employers, physicians, and others.

Site has webforum, merchandise for sale, humor, and other material.

Article about left-handed writing with fountain pens, including advice on nib selection. Photographs show different hand positions lefties write in, with special advice for each.

Long list of left-handed actors, artists, authors, musicians, athletes, politicians, U.S. presidents, and historical figures.

List of lefthanded Canadians. Also contains left-handed stores in Canada.

Educational website about laterality. Includes tests for handedness, footedness, eyedness, and earedness.

Promotes a book described as a survival guide for living lefty in a right-handed world. Includes some information about handedness and famous lefties.

Article discusses the increased acceptance of lefthandedness in Japan.

Speculations on how left-handedness came to be associated with satanism in western mythology.

A modern Islamic perspective on being left-handed.

Left Handers Day is on 13 August. Information about handedness, fun facts, games and quizzes.

Australian company that makes only left hand guitars of models not available in left hand option by original manufacturers. Model photos and descriptions, where to buy, and other details.

Advances the scientific understanding of handedness (left-handed, right-handed and mixed manual preferences) and helps alleviate the social and educational discrimination of left-handers worldwide through research and education.

"If you are left handed, do not despair." Advice for left-handers who want to learn calligraphy.

Critique of the Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda (GBG) Theory of Left-Handedness and other theories that associate lefthandedness with developmental disorders. Published in the Harvard undergraduate neuroscience journal, Brain.

Usenet FAQ. Includes questions such as: What does being "left-handed" or "ambidextrous" mean? Is lefthandedness inherited? Are lefthanders naturally clumsy? Do Lefties make better athletes?

Scientific journal publishing research on the psychological, behavioural and neurological aspects of lateralisation, including handedness. Online tables of contents, abstracts, instructions to authors, and other information.

M.K. Holder answers the questions: "Do scientists understand why there are so many more right-handers than left-handers? Do other primates show a similar tendency to favor one hand over the other?"

Interesting facts and ideas about lefthandedness. [English, Dutch, German]

Instructions, with helpful diagrams.

Advice on determining hand dominance and on dealing with handwriting problems often encountered in left-handers.

Short newsletter, products for sale, and other information.