Gardner's Multiple Intelligence

According to Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence, children are capable of at least eight distinct categories of intelligence. That is, they have many different ways of knowing or of being "smart". the potential for developing the various intelligences is based on the child's experience, culture, and motivation. The following is a summary of this theory.

1. Linguistic Intelligence. Sensitive to the sounds, structure, meanings, and functions of words and languege.
2. Logical-Mathematical Intelligence. Sensitivity to, and capacity to discern, logical or numerical patterns; ability to handle long chains of reasoning.
3. Spatial Intelligence. Capacity to precieve the visual-spatial world accurately and to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.
4. Bodily-Kiesthetic Intelligence. Ability to control one's body movements and to handle objects skillfully.
5. Musical Intelligence. Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitch, and timbre; appreciation the forms of musical expressiveness.
6. Interpersoanl Intelligence. Capacity to discern and respond to the moods, temperaments, motivations, and desires of other people.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence. Access to one's own feelings and the ability to descriminate among one's own strengths and weaknesses.
8. Naturalist Intelligence. Expertise in distinuishing among members of a species; regconizing the existence of other neighboring species; and charting out the relations, formally or informally, among several species.