Mirror Writing: Causes and Solutions

  Mirror writing (or specular writing) refers to the writing of letters and numbers in an inverted way, as if they were reflected in a mirror. This is particularly prevalent in children. For example, when they want to write a ‘d’ they write a ‘b’. After years of research, the hypothesis that this difficulty was present only in left-handed children was accepted as valid. However, today, we know that the reasons for mirror writing are cognitive and behavioral. Cognitive causes of mirror writing Fischer and Koch assert that the origin of this difficulty can be found in the so-called symmetrization…