This article reports three experiments that tested the ability of 11 6–10-year-old children with low vision to recall black-and-white line drawings. Unlike the 22 fully sighted children who were also tested, the children with low vision recalled best when they were left to study the pictures without verbal intervention. Compared with the fully sighted children, the children with low vision named significantly fewer of the remembered pictures correctly.
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