Open AccessUniversitários canhotos: dificuldades encontradas e propostas para as atividades cotidianas
Author(s) -
Elisângela de Assis Amaro,
Karoline Cipriano Raimundo,
Núbia Tomain Otoni dos Santos,
Patrícia Beatriz Silva Bonfim,
Isabel Aparecida Porcatti de Walsh,
Dernival Bertoncello
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cadernos de terapia ocupacional da ufscar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-2860
pISSN - 0104-4931
DOI - 10.4322/cto.2014.074
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy
This research aimed to identify, through the application of questionnaires, the daily difficulties of left-handed college students and to list their proposals to solve the problems found. One hundred thirty-eight left-handed students participated in the study. They answered a questionnaire composed of eight essay questions and five alternative questions which included information on laterality, school, labor and daily life activities, and\udon suggestions to improve their activities. It was verified that the main difficulties reported by left-handed college students on daily life, work, and school environment are opening cans, bad arrangement of objects in space, and inadequacy of school desks, respectively. Aiming to improve the performance of their activities within these three aspects, the most cited suggestions are related to improvement/availability of left-handed adapted desks and development of objects adapted to this group. The study shows data on difficulties and coherent suggestions, and\udthe advances proposed are of easy solution and great value for such population