I know of a child who is visually impaired but has excellent memory skills. She is somehow able to memorize massive amount of info without much effort and is able to do several things at the same time (listening to a audio book, doing homework and also listening to someone talking on the background (in school)). How do I help this young teenager to further her memorization skills (13 yr old). It seems that she has no prior knowledge of memory palaces and others. Suggestions on a training method I can use to increase her retention and other skills for the upcoming SAT? Why I chose this forums was primarily others were not able to identify or know memory techniques that can help her.
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Maybe try mnemonic linking techniques? Memory palaces work by sense of location. It probably doesn’t necessarily have to be a visual sense of location.
There is also a related discussion over here:
I am visually impaired and so have come to know a few blind people. First of all I can confirm that blind people do have both a sense of visualization and certainly a good sense for locations. Most people doesn't realize how much more there is to finding your way through a town then seeing.
Can confirm that it doesn’t need to be visual; I have no visual imagination or memory at all (although I do have a visual perception of the “real world”). As I can imagine no images/see nothing in my mind, all my memory palaces are based on spatial relations, and impressions/feelings of a place.