hearing, seeing, reading

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Hi Ken,

Actually, it's NOT unusual to have a preferred style for

understanding. As an occupational therapy practitioner, I learned that

some people learn just by looking at how something is done, some have to

read directions, and others have to get their hands on it and manipulate

it to understand. Just a difference in how you integrate information.

Photographic memory is great. Sometimes mine is out of film!!

When I was teaching painting, I could show the class how to do shading

on part of a painting. Then I'd say, " you do the same thing here and

here " There was one student who could not translate what she just did on

one section of the painting to the other section. She had to SEE me put

the shading on the next part, then she could do it. I could POINT to

where it went, and she still didn't get it. So it was an interesting

experience. But we all learn the way we learn.

English is my first language, as I grew up with some hearing, but I could

never remember very well things that I heard. In contrast, if I read

something even just once, I can often quote it back word-for-word days,

months, sometimes even years later. When I later learned ASL, I found I

had the same problem as with hearing, I simply can't remember things that

I either hear, lipread, or see via ASL very well. But if I read something

on paper or screen, I have excellent recall for it.

Maybe that's because I always struggled to hear. Maybe it's because my

brain is making more effort to understand speech/sign than in remembering

it.

Ken

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