What does it mean when students are diagnosed with directional confusion or crossed laterality?
Directional confusion means confusing left and right. It is a genetic disposition and primarily the result of a person not having a dominant side; e.g., the person’s dominant hand and dominant eye are on opposite sides of the body. This condition is referred to as crossed laterality. As a result, the person may reverse letters, numbers and words such as was for saw, or on for no. This condition also is characterized by the person not have a sense of direction and orientation. Reading in English is a left to right orientation. When parents and teachers see students reversing their orientation, they tend to caution them to read from left to right. Since these children confuse left and right, doing this becomes frustrating for the adult as well as the students.
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