Describe Your Child's Theory Of Multiple Intelligences?

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Question 1: Describe your child’s cognitive development.
a. From reading I learned about “Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences” and noticed that my child shows evidence of each of the eight intelligences that he believes to exist to some degree (Berk,2014,p.244). The intelligences not brought up by a child’s IQ scores, but rather by Gardner are linguistic, logico-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. At age six Kiera was able to react appropriately to the temperaments of other kids, as well as control her feelings and use them to determine her behavior, however these two intelligences, interpersonal and intrapersonal, were not shown as strongly as the others (Berk,2014,p.245). Another intelligence …show more content…

Although she is okay at math my daughter could do better, as noted by her report, this ability is only slightly less developed than the next intelligence which involves science (Eight years old, My Virtual Child). Kiera shows evidence of the naturalist intelligence because of her love to explore the outdoors and identify things (Berk,2014,p.245). Fortunately, Kiera is more strongly developed when it comes to her bodily-kinesthetic abilities, as demonstrated by her abilities in playing both soccer and softball (Six years old, My Virtual Child). From the eight year and eleven month old report, I learned that she is above average in spatial intelligence, as well as in her linguistic abilities as demonstrated by her scores “on the verbal portion of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children,” which declared her as gifted (Eight years old, My Virtual Child). Despite these high scores, my daughter’s strongest intelligence by far is the musical one. This was discovered at first by her singing and ability to play songs by ear on the keyboard at only six years old, and then by her dedication to piano/singing lessons for two years where she also

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