Crossing midline importance

Students who have trouble making letters and shapes, especially those with diagonal lines may also have trouble crossing the midline of their body.

If you can picture an imaginary line down the middle of your body, dividing your right side from your left side, this will help you learn how to cross the midline.  We do this when we have a strong hand dominance.  If you are right handed, you will most likely cross over the left side of your body to pick up an item.

Children who do not have a strong sense of either hand dominance or their body may avoid crossing over the midline.  This affects our ability to integrate both the right and left hemispheres of the brain, therefore limiting reading and writing development.

So…if your child has messy handwriting or forms shapes that don’t look accurately, you may want to pay attention to see if they are crossing over the midline of their body.

If not,  refer to braingym.org for crossing midline exercises.

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