The definition of maladroit is  awkward or showing a lack of skills. An example of a maladroit person is an employee who cannot accomplish the simplest tasks of the job. noun Maladroit is defined as a person with a lack of skills.
Even within Working Memory (the next step after Sensory Memory), the verbal/non-verbal information is processed separately. Verbal input is attended to and processed in your brain's phonological loop. Visual input is attended to and processed on your brain's visuospatial sketchpad. From these two different locations, the information is encoded (transferred) to long-term memory.
Language processing is a function more of the left side of the brain than the right side, particularly Broca's Area and Wernicke's area, though the roles played by the two sides of the brain in processing different aspects of language are still unclear.