All teachers and parents of children with learning disabilities say the children have problems with memory. It seems like these children and adolescents just simply forget. Perhaps they do, but that is not all of the story. Memory is a complex process that involves much more than the number of things a person can remember. It encompasses knowing what needs to be remembered, strategies for remembering and learning to access information that you stored in your memory bank.
Some people have excellent memories.
Most people, however, employ a number of strategies that enable them to use their memories effectively and efficiently. The ability to understand the demands of the task, to know what strategies to use, to use them effectively and to learn how to retrieve information may be at the core of the problem for students with learning disabilities. Information comes to us through the environment. If a child has a perceptual processing disorder, this information may be compounded and affect memory functioning. If a child or adolescent has an attention deficit disorder, memory functioning will definitely be hindered.