Wow! These are all things that I have thought about and experienced but never was able to articulate clearly. I was aware of the multiple intelligences because my mother was a teacher and when it was introduced she was very impressed and talked a lot about it, but putting it in this context really made it hit home. My middle daughter had a head injury when she was 8 and has major deficits in her logical/mathematical reasoning abilities. Her linguistic abilities remain mostly intact. Her reading skills and memorizing abilities are good, and her musical intelligence is good as well. For the first few years after her accident, the teachers worked endlessly to drill her in math facts, reading a clock, and other basic math skills. It was frustrating for everyone because that part of her brain was just not able to work anymore. When she got to middle school she worked with a teacher that really understood how to teach with multiple intelligences. She used her strengths (reading and music) to help her learn all of the things that were being neglected as a result of focusing on what she didn’t have instead of what she did have. She really blossomed that year, and found interests that are still with her.
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