Can you be born Ambidexterous?

Question

I am doing a power point slideshow on Ambidexerity.
What is it?
HOw do you get it?
Advantages?
Disadvantages?
Can you be cured of it?
Famous people who were Ambidexterous?
Any help with any of these or any goods sites with info would be a big help :)

Answer 1

I'm not sur eif you acn be bron with it. It means having equal motor skills on both sides, you can become it if you are a lefty and forced to become right handed, also if you train using ur hands equally.
theres not many disadvantages, the advantages are on that site, einstein and leonardo da vinci were ambi :)

Answer 2

True ambidexterity would be having equal control over both sides of the body.
I think it's something we are either born with or move away from in the womb.
The advantages would be having greater control of your body you could do so many things faster. You could drive any car!
The disadvantages would be caused mostly by the great amount of energy your body would have to use to sustain ambidexterity. Your life would most certainly be shorter.
The word "cure" is not right. "Freed from it" is a better word choice. I'd say not completely.
I favor my left side for some things and my right side for others. Considering all the things we do, I highly doubt any of us are completely non-ambidextrous.

Answer 3

Well, as far as I know, to be ambidexterous means you can use either hand to do things. How you would get it I imagine would be actually practice? I think most people are ambidextrous to a certain extent, it may not be the BEST use, but they are still somewhat able to use the other hand.

For instance, I am left handed, but I am more functional on many things with my right hand more than my left hand. But that may be because in preschool they tried to get me to use my right hand. I guess they just couldn't accept the fact that in their eyes, using my left hand just wasn't the "right" way to do things...

Advantages? Well you can use both hands.

Disadvantages, not so sure....

and being cured of it, well I didn't know that it was even problem to be able to use both hands? Maybe that's a personal type of thing, maybe in some people's eyes this is an issue...

and as for famous people, I honestly can't say...

Answer 4

My daughter is truely ambi. cursive with both hands is impossible to tell. A few teachers tried to tell me she needed to change or stablize but I ignored them. She isn't brain "damages" and in al gifted programs- so much for that theory. She tends to use left for writing, like her dad, but can switch any time she wants, scissors and other appliences with right hand knobs, switches etc and she uses right for convienence.

http://www.physorg.com/news11154.html
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/12/2512
http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/123/12/2512