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This is an interesting discussion. I have a child who has learning disabilities and reading is difficult for him. He has a hard time visualizing at any time but it affects math more than reading. I've spent a lot of time with him teaching him to visualize and it's helped. On his own he never made the connection between symbols (letters and numbers) and what they actually represent. He could only learn to read by the whole word method, phonetics never worked. He finds it far easier to visualize if he has a picture to start with. Nowadays, his recreational reading is confined to magazines and graphic novels but that's fine with me.
Myself, I visualize *everything*. Math, reading, speech, music; it's all pictures and video in my mind.
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