Mirror writing in typically developing children

What is it about?

Until the end of the 20th century, mirror writing was not studied, as teachers and parents rightly tried to avoid it (and not show it too much). But, as neuro-psychological research has since clearly demonstrated that it's a normal process in children's handwriting development, this handwriting has interested developmental psychologists. And so, in 2016, we published the first longitudinal study, that is, a study of the mirror writing of the same children at age 4 in middle section kindergarten, then at age 5 in upper section kindergarten, and, finally, at age 6 in first grade.

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Why is it important?

This study not only confirms that writing in mirror image is a normal stage in a child's development, but also that this writing is not a perceptual problem, since children made fewer mirror reversals when copying characters (letters and digits) at age 4 than when writing them from memory (under dictation) at age 5.