Visual Memory

Visual memory is the ability to remember and recall visual information such as the shape of letters, numbers and sight words. A child who has difficulty with visual memory will have difficulty recognising words by sight rather they will have to rely on sounding the words out in order to facilitate their comprehension of what is read. Children who have difficulty with visual memory may remember a word one day and forget the next. Children with poor visual memories will often compensate auditorily by sub vocalizing or softly whispering to themselves as they read. ie. They constantly talk to themselves and verbally label everything in order to memorise and comprehend everything that happens around them. Children with superior verbal abilities may in fact have excellent rote memory for past experiences and facts since these things can be labelled verbally yet they will struggle with recalling visual forms such as remembering the shape of a letter.

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