Why does Lavoie use the concept of mirror-writing to describe visual motor integration problems?
When we look in a mirror, we perceive things as backwards. Our brains tell us one message; however, our visual system gives us another message. This is similar to the kind of problem that children with learning disabilities have when their visual perception and their motor integration does not match. The message your motor cortext and brain are sending you two different messages. Visual motor integration disability–writing will be laborious or impossible task. Help kids learn to write things they absolutely have to do, but leave handwriting behind and use computers to get rid of that barrier.
