Howard Grader's Analysis

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While there might be multiple ways to measure intelligence, one way psychologist Howard Grader described intelligence was by dividing it into 8 segments. Individuals may be more smarter in one segment than the other, making everyone's sense of intelligence unique to the way they learn. This model suggests that schools, especially for the middle childhood years (6-12) should use a variety of subjects to learn from rather than just the traditional reading, writing, and arithmetic for the basis of learning. Gardner's eight intelligences are- musical, bodily kinetics, logical mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
In 1975 Congress passed a law to ensure that children with disabilities or special needs be related the same way as their peers. For instance, before The Education For All Handicapped Children Act was passed children with a lower IQ due to disabilities would have to be placed in a different classroom away from their peers. Not only did this cause greater stigmatism for these children, but society was trying to tell them from a young age that they deserved a “special place” away from everyone else. This new law does not apply to children with severe disabilities, but rather those who do not suffer from …show more content…

In this stage children are learning to master a sport, school subject or any other area to compete with their peers and feel superior. If children fail, they will feel inferior and inadequate. This stage is particularly critical for children, owing to the fact that these types of successes or failures stick to them until adulthood. As a future dietitian, interested in working with children, it is important to make parents with overweight or obese children to be aware that the type of language that they use to address to describe them can damage them

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