Mirror writing is a phenomenon in which letters and numbers are written right to left, but not as much as usual. Therefore, all the characters look as if they were written in mirror image. If your child tries to write like this, it is necessary to find out the information, why is this happening?
Is the mirror writing of pathology and whether to sound the alarm on this issue and try to correct such writing? Mirror writing characters is also the second name - writing "Leonardo". It is interesting, but it is a way of writing used in his works of Da Vinci.
To this day, scientists are trying to find the reason why he wrote in this way and basically the researchers put forward three versions in this regard:
- Thus, the genius "encrypt" your records
- Supposedly Leonardo was left-handed, so it was much easier to write from right to left
- Perhaps da Vinci sought to originality and, thanks to a simple layman distorted writing, he showed so
The reasons for manifestation of a mirror writing in children. In fact, this letter appears in many pre-school children, especially when they begin to teach writing in a rather tender age. As a rule, such writing - a temporary phenomenon, and by the beginning of school, it is normalized. And the thing is that it is often up to the age of seven children is leading right hemisphere and so the space they scan from right to left. But by the age of seven, the activity itself takes a left brain and the perception of space takes place, as it should be, from left to right. That is why you should not worry in advance and to sound the alarm about the desire of the child to overturn letters. Better gradually, gently and quietly send their preschoolers to the correct spelling.
But there are cases when the mirror writing becomes quite stable and it is likely that it will manifest itself throughout life.
The reasons for the mirror handwriting
- Children left-handedWhich, in principle, logical and easier to write from right to left, as well as all the signs and symbols they choose to write from the bottom up. Retrained lefthanders also tend to mirror writing
- Children, having such a deviation as optical dysgraphia. In other words, in the mind of a child is formed image is not associated with the word, and therefore it is extremely difficult to reproduce
- Children who not formed an idea of the shape or dimension, as well as disrupted orientation in space. Such deviations may begin to manifest itself in the process of learning to write. If the child at a younger age confuse right and left, not properly used in his speech, prepositions, respect orientation in space, in the early school years it will be difficult to grasp the fine lines of similarity of letters
- Another of the causes of a mirror writing It may be early teaching writing. The fact is that in the age of three, children can see the letters in the form of pictures, rather than in the form of characters, so it does not matter to them which way they turned. Only by the age of seven mature those parts of the brain that are responsible for the development of writing. That is why the "immaturity" of the brain at an early age can cause a "mirror" of characters
- mirror writing It can occur in patients with neurological disorders of children, such as mutism, violations of the musculoskeletal system, the presence of a child's epilepsy syndrome. In such cases, before you teach a child writing, much less deal with his retraining, should be contact the experts who will be able to identify the true cause violations and make appropriate destination
If you notice that a child is mainly used mirror writing, but he does not have medical condition, do not panic and do not abuse the crumbs. Doshkolyata only just taking the first steps in the development of writing.
How to wean a child from a mirror writing?
- If you notice errors in the writing of your crumbs, then immediately do not panic, and even more so it is not necessary to suppress his attempts to write and draw. Little preschoolers still difficult to navigate in performing multiple tasks at the same time because their error they can not even notice it.
- Include daily routine remedial classes, teaching a child to navigate, which is the left side, and where the right. These lessons should take place in an interesting form of a game and to attract children to show his left eye, his right leg, and so on.
- Once the child learns to accurately navigate the sides of your body, you should go to its orientation in spaceand teach to show the door to the left of him, bedside table, which is located to the right of the baby
- Followed by smooth transition to the orientation of objects in relation to each other has. For example, costs as much as possible to ask to show or submit a fork to the left of the plate, or a notebook to the right of the pencil
- Familiarize the child with letters and numbers must be held unobtrusive and always in a playful way
- Engage with the child must be systematically and necessarily given his age, In any case slowly move on to the basics of writing characters. If done correctly and the child fascinated by a game knowledge alphanumeric characters, he wants to play them over time.
- All the usual or correction classes must be built so that the child was not boringOtherwise it may be the opposite effect.
