Visual Perceptual Area Definitions - Visual Memory
The ability to remember and recall images of objects, shapes, symbols and movements plays a key role in all learning. This skill helps children to adequately process information through their short-term memory, from where it is filtered out into the long-term memory.
A child with Visual Memory problems may have difficulty reading and spelling sight words (words unable to be spelled phonetically, for example: would, laugh, two/too). The child must be able to look at a word, form a visual image of that word and be able to later recall the image of that word. They often whisper softly to themselves, as they read in order to help compensate through the auditory learning pathway.
Science class and multi-stepped mathematics can be particularly overwhelming because of the need to remember both detail and spatial organization in flow sheets, diagrams, graphs, and graphic figures.