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February 1929

RECURRENCE OF STUTTERING FOLLOWING SHIFT FROM NORMAL TO MIRROR WRITING

Arch NeurPsych. 1929;21(2):386-391. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1929.02210200142012
Abstract

A number of previous writers have noted that stuttering has followed enforced training of a naturally left handed child to write with the right hand, but I do not know that any one has reported cases of stuttering following a change from writing in the ordinary form to the mirrored form. The following case report concerns an adult with a severe grade of writing disability who began to stutter shortly after he undertook to substitute the mirrored form for the ordinary form of writing.1

REPORT OF CASE 

History.  —The father had a writing disability; if he wrote very slowly, the writing was legible; as a rule, he held a pencil in either the right or the left hand, although lately he had been holding it between the two thumbs and two forefingers, but not in either hand. The patient's maternal uncle, notwithstanding that he had an excellent mind and

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