Are ambidexriety, stuttering and dislexia all related?

Question

I read that ambidextrous people use both sides of their brain equally and people with stuttering or dislexia have the two sides of thier brain in conflict. All three deal with not picking a dominant side of the brain.

Answer 1

Despite what the others say, I believe there is some truth to what you are saying. For one, Everything has do do with the brain. All three of what you mentioned have to do with Language(ie. speaking/ writing/ and reading, and there have been studies investigating the relationship between cerebral dominance and stuttering / dyslexia / ambidextrous people, separately. So yes you are on the right track, but I don't think they have any direct correlation / relationship.
Good Luck!

maybe you should go into the field of Speech-Language-Pathology and do research.

Answer 2

What ever gave you that idea?

No, they are not.

People usually have one side of their brain more dominant than the other... therefore they also have a dominant hand/side with which they prefer to do tasks. People that are ambidextrous can use either hand equally... and therefore have both sides of the brain equal in dominance, too. It is NOT a disability. I am ambidextrous... when I have lots to write on the board in my classroom, and one hand gets tired, I just switch hands (at first it freaks my students out, but they get used to it)....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidexterity

Stuttering has to do with how someone hears and processes their own speech. It is a speech-language disorder (articulation). Therapy involves the stutterer learning how to pace thought and speech to match more closely, and to use coping skills to avoid repeating sounds and words.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001427.htm

Dyslexia is difficulty with processing visual symbolic language (print). It causes difficulty with reading and writing. For most people, there comes a point (usually by 3rd grade) where reading skills become "unconscious." The person is "hearing" the message in the words, rather than concentrating on how to read each word. For dyslexics, they do not experience this unconscious decoding naturally. They must be taught how to do it consciously, through various techniques designed by learning disability reading specialists (like the Orton-Gillingham approach).

http://www.interdys.org/servlet/compose?section_id=5&page_id=95

Of course, someone can have all three conditions. But they are NOT generally related to each other.

In regards to these being an issue of brain hemisphere connectivity...

No, only ambidextrous are not picking a dominant side of the brain. The two sides in an ambidextrous person have to communicate with each other extremely well to allow the coordination needed.

Stutterers and dyslexics usually do have a dominant hand (I teach kids with both issues). There are, in many cases, very likely a problem with the two sides of the brain's communication with each other... but from what I've seen that may be a separate disorder that is just very common to happen when people also have stuttering or dyslexia, or other issues.

Answer 3

i dont think any of them have to do with any of the other 2. i am ambidextrous in sports, as in i can shoot basketball with both hands, play ping pong with both, and such. but each one of those are located at different parts of the brain, and none of them are connected to each other, i dont think.

Answer 4

no
Ambidexriety is being able to use either hand for something like throwing a ball
Stuttering is a speech issue
dislexia is a reading issue

Answer 5

sure they could be because all of them are a type of brain disfunction and we don't know what causes them. So, whatever caused it could have caused it all.

Answer 6

No I do not believe so.