More from me. I found that playing keyboard-based computer games, where I had to use left & right arrow keys, helped me a lot to remember left & right, i.e. more automatically than having to stop and think about it.

When I was in Primary School I wore a small ring on my left hand to remember which side of the road to ride my bicycle on. (We drive on the correct side here in Oz, not the right side.)

I find I have what I call brain-flips. It's like left and right, and top/bottom flip back and forth. So reading a word like "superstitious", the syllables can flip. I know it starts with "su" and ends in a "shus" sound, but then the middle syllables flip. I am aware of it now, but in childhood it was very confusing, while I was learning to read or learning new words. P's look like 9's, b's look like d's. Word pictures can help. The word "bed" looks like a bed - bedhead, mattress, bed-end. |--| My big numeric problem is a top to bottom flip. Look at the number 5 upside down and it looks like a 2. I'll see a 2, my brain registers 2, and I say 5, and have to correct myself.

Now I'm aware that the first word or number I think I see is possibly not right, so I double-check everything I type, or data I am entering, or words or numbers I am saying. It slows me down but I have extremely high accuracy. I consistently score around high 90's in tests out of 100 for accuracy.

Helen