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Left-Handed Advice Centre
Practical answers for left-handers, parents and teachers, from the specialist that has supplied left-handed products since 1968. Pick what you are trying to do, read the answer, and see the products that solve it. Our advice comes from more than 50 years specialising in left-handed products, not from comparing online listings.
Scissors
Most scissors problems come down to one thing: whether the blades are truly reversed. These guides explain the difference and how to get the best from a pair.
Questions answered
- How left-handed scissors differ, and how to choose them – what makes a pair truly left-handed, and which type suits adults, children, sewing, nails or home use.
- Best left-handed scissors for kids: UK buying guide – from a first pair through to age 7+.
- Can you turn right-handed scissors upside down? – why they are still right-handed scissors.
- New to left-handed scissors, or scissors not cutting? – why a pair can feel wrong if you have always used right-handed ones, and how to adjust.
Children and parents
From the early question of whether your child will be left-handed, to choosing the right equipment and handling handwriting at school.
Questions answered
- What is the chance of having a left-handed child? – how left-handedness runs in families, by the parents' handedness.
- Is there a left-handed gene? Quick read or in depth.
- 10 essential products every left-handed child needs – chosen from customer feedback.
- Best left-handed scissors for kids: UK buying guide
- Forced change: what happens when a left-hander is made to write right-handed
- Changing a forced right-hander back to left-handed
Writing and school
Paper position, pencil grip, smudging and letter formation: the practical side of learning to write left-handed, for parents and for teachers.
Questions answered
- How to help a left-handed child with handwriting – paper position, pencil grip, posture and smudging.
- Supporting left-handed pupils – practical help for teachers and schools.
- Writing problems – experiences of writing problems and support in school.
- Left-handed cursive writing – a parent's question on teaching cursive, answered.
- How do you write a letter X? – why left-handers form some letters in a different direction.
- Left-handed spiral notebooks – why standard spiral notebooks are awkward, and the alternatives.
- Stabilo pens – a pen with a grip moulded for the left hand.
- Left-handed writing skills books – a series for left-handed children, with guidance for parents and teachers.
Kitchen and eating
Knives, tin and can openers, peelers and corkscrews that work with the left hand, and the long-running question of how left-handers hold their cutlery.
Questions answered
- Left-handed eating – how left-handers hold a knife and fork, and why practice varies.
- Eating left handed (or not) – more on cutlery, with readers' comments.
- What makes a knife left handed? – what to look for, and how ours are made.
Products that help
Everyday life
Small things that are harder than they should be when everything is designed for the right hand.
Questions answered
- Left-handed shoelaces – why left-handers tie a bow differently, and how to teach a left-handed child.
Products that help
Myths and left-handed life
The folklore, the science and the everyday oddities of being left-handed.
- Left handed myths and misunderstandings
- Is it just me, or is it a left-handed thing?
- Left-handed brains: quick read or in depth.