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Special Education and the Concept of Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity recognizes that there is a continuum of differences between different people with and without disability labels. Someone who is neurotypical falls within the middle range of these neurological features. Some consider this to be "normal" but the whole length of the continuum is truly within a normal range.
Learning Through Many Kinds of Intelligence by Dee Dickinson
Dr. Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind and co-director of Project Zero at Harvard University, has created a Theory of Multiple Intelligences. He points out that school systems often focus on a narrow range of intelligence that involves primarily verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical skills. While knowledge and skills in these areas are essential for surviving and thriving in the world, he suggests that there are at least six other kinds of intelligence that are important to fuller human development and that almost everyone has available to develop. They include, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, naturalist and intrapersonal intelligence .More…
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