User talk:Pepperpiper

Pepperpiper (talk) 13:08, 17 January 2011 (UTC) I have been corresponding and working with Dr Barbara Sattler, based in Munich, since 2008 on handedness and the mismatch between the writing and the adept hand. Although we have some minor differences we agree on the implications and consequences for the individual, family, education, business and society in general, of not writing with the adept hand. Barbara's work can be found at www.linkshaender-beratung.de/english/index.htm

I have also been using Stephen Pepper's World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence to frame seemingly intractable personal and institutional problems. Pepper's work is both seminal and particularly pertinent text in view of the way the term 'evidence' is currently abused: it is evoked as a 'mantra' to claim objective truth. One on-line introduction to his work can be found at https://people.sunyit.edu/~harrell/Pepper/Index.htm

Latent / Converted Handedness
Most studies and investigations on handedness have been conducted in terms of degrees of laterality. An often used tool in this field is Oldfield's Edinburgh Handedness Inventory. I was at Prof Oldfield's MRC Speech and Communication Unit in Edinburgh when he published his much cited and used inventory, see http://gade.psy.ku.dk/Readings/Oldfield1971.pdf.

However, very little of the published work on laterality has any pedagogic value since, in the normal course of events, we write holding the pen with only one hand. [Touch typing is of course a different matter as is sign-language]. It is of greater educational importance to know that pupils and students are writing with their adept hand, since it is writing that defines as as uniquely different from every other animal and structures our sense of self in this literate world.

Yet, although many know of the practice of forcing or inducing natural lefthanders to write with their right hand, few are aware that some natural righthanders write with their left hand. This latter condition is a double-handicap: individuals in this converted left hander mirror-condition are not in harmony with either themselves or with the world of human rights.

Converted handedness is where individuals are aware that they have been made to write with the non-adept hand. Indeed this the title of one of Dr Barbara Sattler's books: The Knot in the Brain or the Converted Left Hander.

Latent handedness is where individuals are unaware of such conversion ever having taken place. It is therefore hidden in two senses: first from the perspective of such individuals themselves and second from parents, teachers and employers who attribute children's, pupils' and employees' difficulties with reading and writing (and other conditions) to a variety of psychological conditions, cognitive deficits or negative personal attributes.

These conditions, their implications for well-being evaluations and their consequences for individuals and society have been acknowledged in Germany through the work of Dr Barbara Sattler and in the UK by Dr Peter Mathews. Perversely, the British Psychological Society (BPS) denies the validity of the condition and its consequences. One direct consequence is that any evaluation or assessment conducted by educational, forensic, counselling - indeed by any psychologist registered with the BPS, is rendered inadequate because it fails to identify a core body-mind condition. The indirect consequence is that all educational, treatment, or rehabilitation programmes based on such inadequate evaluations -which fail to eliminate the presence of the condition- will prove to be ineffective in the long term.

I know of only two websites that focus on this mis-match between the writing and the adept hand:
 * http://www.wrighthand.net
 * http://www.linkshaender-beratung.de/english/index.htm

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