The study investigated the extent to which two groups of blind children were able to use tactual picture information to improve memory performance for auditorily presented texts. Adventitiously blind children demonstrated significant increases in amount recalled with illustrated presentation, showing improved recall of information represented in both the text and the picture. For congenitally blind children, the pictures also produced increased recall of pictorial information, but this was at the expense of recall of non‐pictorial information represented in the text onl