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  • Title: [Mirror writing in a child].
    Author: Kaciński M, Kutyńska U, Wyszkowski J.
    Journal: Neurol Neurochir Pol; 1985; 19(2):164-70. PubMed ID: 2864648.
    Abstract:
    The authors analysed the causes of mirror writing and its evolution in a girl aged 7-9 years. Among the possible causes they consider changing lateralization of extremities, absence of evident predominance of a hemisphere, acquiring of this writing by exercise through imitation with the left hand of the writing movements performed by the right hand, and the possibility of microtrauma of the central nervous system. It is stressed that the mental development was normal and there were on features of developmental dyslexia.
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