To thinkk that if my pre-schooler does her letters and numbers backwards it's a sign of dyslexia?

[mrsbertiewooster]

I work in education myself so I know there is a process before you can diagnose a child with dyslexia.

However, my DD (4.5) often copies out some numbers and letters backwards. Or else writes them backwards off the top of her head when she recalls them. In particular, the number 5, 2 and the letters F and S.

Am not really worried, as I think it's a bonus anyway to recognise and make letters before school anyway, but just wanted to know if the above is common?

Thanks!

My eldest three are all right handed and they have all at some point done back to front letters. None are dyslexic.

I am left handed and I used to mirror write perfectly when in reception. It was a hell of a lot easier to do!

I noticed a little girl at my ds pre school yesterday had written her very long name out beautifully and perfectly, although backwards. I was very impressed! She seems a very bright little girl, and it reminded me of my own dd doing the same at 4. Who now writes forwards and reads forwards in normal fashion. Funny isn't it how children develop.

It's really Intresting people bringing up this in relation to left handedness, dd does this, pretty impressively, she has completed a whole spelling test spelling the words right but in mirror image. She has been tested for dyslexia and doesn't have it, the teachers were mystified. She is 7 and still doing it occasionally with numbers and has to check herself with words sometimes.

Slightly off topic, but to those who are commenting on left-handedness, I am left-handed, and learned to read and write before I was 3 (according to DM - I don't remember) but all my writing was (perfect) mirror-writing at first, then I switched to conventional style.
In fact 30-odd years on, I can still write completely fluently in mirror writing. I kind of "zone-out" and let my hand take over {hippy} and it just flows..

(brushes down left-handed halo and repositions on head, without mirror)

I just thought it was a sign of being a pre-schooler, myself!

My dp treasures a beautifully drawn, beautifully written birthday card from dd addressed to Dear Dabby- and she must have been 7!