Mirrored writing

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DD has always wrote her d, b, q, g etc and numbers the wrong way round, right from learning to write at nursery. Teachers have always said its pretty common and the fact she is left handed could be a factor too (she does struggle with knives and forks, shoes on right feet etc)
At last parents evening her teacher said although she notices the backwards letters and numbers most in dd out of the whole class, shes not worried and wouldnt want to do any testing etc at the minute as dd is still young and it is fairly common for the age, which is year 2 and nearly 7.

Lately she has started to write mirrored, she will spell perfectly but the letters will be in the total wrong order. Ill attach a photo in next post where she has written her name, in alphabet spaghetti .

Anyone have experience of this? Should I start pushing for testing or could it be from her being left handed? Shes very fluent with reading whereas I would have thought if she had dyslexia she would struggle with this?

Alphabet spaghetti name

Teach her to write the letters correctly - but of practice to see if she can remember

Dyslexic kids can read perfectly well however they have to commute them to memory so at some point the brain has too much going on to hold all the information they need - a ceiling point
It’s at this point issues start to rise.
Some dyslexics are only discovered in university.

Look up 37 signs of dyslexia for other pointers

My nephew did this when he was in infant school. He is left handed. I actually thought it was very clever when I saw a whole page of mirror writing! Neither my sister, who is early years trained, nor his class teacher, were especially worried about it, from what I heard. I don't know if he had any particular intervention, but he seemed to sort it out quite quickly, and wasn't held back by it. He was always a good and keen reader (wanting to keep up with elder brother), I don't think it had any effect on his reading.

Thank you I will definitely look up the 37 pointers. Shes had lots of support in writing the letters the right way round, lots of writing at home and her teacher has taped a letter mat to her desk to help her. Her d, b, p, d and q are constantly opposite, as are her 3, 5, 2, 7 and 9 with numbers.

It is fascinating Anna, I agree with you there. I do think the left handedness is playing a big part. Thank you both for replying.

My left-handed sister used to do this, but she grew out of it. You could still tell when she laid the table, though, even into adulthood.

I'd be willing to bet that mirrored writing is for entertainment.

I did the same when I was 6 and the teacher finally asked me about it (when I'd got bored and gone back to writing things from left to right) - I told her I wanted to try it and she breathed a sigh of relief and said 'Oh, good, we were getting a bit worried about you'. I shrugged my shoulders (as I couldn't imagine why a teacher could possibly be worried about something I did for fun) and asked if I could go to playtime now.