Patricia Romero
ECED 1354.01
Dr. Graves
April 15, 2018
Written Assignment #3
1. How smart is your child, and in what areas? Refer to the summary of multiple
intelligences that appeared at age 6 and to this article on multiple intelligences. Find
specific evidence regarding your child’s verbal, logical mathematical, spatial, musical and
bodily-kinesthetic intelligence from your observations of your own child as well as the
psychologist’s report at age 8 years, 11 months and explain how it ties in to the material
in your text and course reader.
Diana seems to be a very smart child as she is above average as expressed in her
psychologist’s report. These were some of Diana’s scores on the Verbal portion of the Wechsler
Intelligence Scale for Children (where 7 is one standard deviation below the mean, 10 is the
mean and 13 is one standard deviation above the mean): Information (15), Vocabulary (17),
Similarities (16), Comprehension (16). The psychologist said these scores were in the gifted
range.
Diana’s scores on the math concepts, math application problems, and math computation tests
were in the gifted range, and the psychologist recommended that she be tested for placement in
gifted classes or at least in a higher math class in 6th grade.
Diana’s scores on tests of visual-spatial ability (spatial rotation, copying of designs, etc.)
were well above average, and the examiner recommended that you seek out drawing, design and
building experiences for Diana, depending on interest level.
Some examples for each of the categories mentioned above are: Diana seemed to be involve
in adult conversations at this age and used surprisingly difficult word sin her speech, this is a
form of the verbal intelligence and as expressed by Marotz, Diana falls in the right speech
development for her age since understanding and using language as a system for communicating
with others is developmental appropriate for her age (Page 193). Diana showed good
development in math since she was in earlier grades, mental math, computations were simple
examples of what she was capable to achieve. Diana’s love for dance had made her become more
aware of the spaces around her, she was usually a master in memory games because she was able
