Re: Visual memory

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Reg Reynolds

A couple of suggestions. I would check out SAFMEDS (not about

medication -- part of the celeration literature, which is worth

exploring on its own), which is what seems to be being described here.

The other thought that comes to mind is NLP (neurolinguistic

programming) related. It isn't my area of expertise, but I always

wonder whether the NLP memory techniques which work with NT people would

also work with the ASD population, e.g., good spellers tend to look up

and to the right as they visually access the (visually encoded mermory)

representations of words to be spelled.

>Subject: Re: Visual memory help

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>Stacie,

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>Another poster was right in saying that your son should be evaluated

>by a neuropsychologist for his memory skills, but if these deficits

>have already been established (by a qualified psychologist), there are

>programs that can address memory.

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>One that I can think of right now involves showing the child a card

>with a picture (or a letter, number, etc.), having him label what's on

>the card, removing or turning the card over, and having him recall

>from memory what was on the card. Once he masters this skill for one

>card, you work up to two cards, and so on. When there is more than

>one card in an array, you can try turning over the cards and asking

>him to find such-and-such an item (so he has to remember the position

>of the item in the array of cards). Also, you could have him try to

>draw what he just saw and then (as soon as he's done drawing) show him

>the picture/symbol for immediate feedback on his accuracy.

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>These are just some ideas for exercising visual memory - in order to

>find an intervention that targets your son's difficulties precisely,

>you would, as was mentioned before, need to make sure his memory

>skills have been assessed appropriately. But I hope these ideas are

>helpful. Best of luck!

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