Thanks for your information, Sue. She just had neuropsychological testing and this is how we found out about the verbal memory deficits. She also uses a cell phone, but she is not much of a talker so she doesn't do it excessively. I am aware of the issues you brought up about cell phones and got her one of those headsets so that she can keep the phone farther away from her head.

I am reading lots of memory books and reading alot about memory in various journals, and I thought about something I recently read---that the adult brain is far more "plastic" than previously thought. So I am hoping both you and my daughter can retrain that hippocampus! Thanks again for the info.