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Abstract

The author of the paper recalls the stages of the origin of writing in phylogenesis, in order to explain the origin of the young - less than 200 years old - Polish sign language. The text contains suggestions how to build up the stages of an efficient therapy in situations of specific disturbances of reading and writing activities. The article also brings up a thesis that it is necessary to repeat the historical development of writing while teaching reading - from simultaneous unities (pictograms, ideograms, vowels, onomatopoeias, globally-recognizable nouns) to linear sequences (from syllabic to alphabetical writing); from reading aloud to reading texts in solitude.