Sounds to me like her note-taking is pretty critical for her.
It's very difficult to piece together cause and affect here. Is her memory & mental model bad because she's using notes as a "crutch", or is that crutch the only reason she's functional in any way. To expand on the crutch analogy, if someone has a game leg taking away their crutch isn't going to improve their walking.
Speaking as someone who has problems with working memory, I take a lot of notes because I can't trust my brain to effectively parse what requires long term storage. I might understand everything perfectly clearly, and then days/hours/minutes later it's gone.
Note-taking prevents information being lost to the aether, and revision helps commit stuff to long term memory.
I would guess her handwriting words per minute is not fast enough to keep up with conversations. I would find it difficult to pay attention and understand stuff if I'm constantly trying to drain the buffer of words coming in and I would have to start throwing some 409s and would miss some stuff. At least with typing, I can keep up with conversations when I need to take notes for a given discussion.
It's very difficult to piece together cause and affect here. Is her memory & mental model bad because she's using notes as a "crutch", or is that crutch the only reason she's functional in any way. To expand on the crutch analogy, if someone has a game leg taking away their crutch isn't going to improve their walking.
Speaking as someone who has problems with working memory, I take a lot of notes because I can't trust my brain to effectively parse what requires long term storage. I might understand everything perfectly clearly, and then days/hours/minutes later it's gone.
Note-taking prevents information being lost to the aether, and revision helps commit stuff to long term memory.