Measurement of Multiple Intelligences among Sample of Students with Autism, and Intellectual Disability Using Teacher Estimation and Its Relationship with the Variables: The Type and Severity of Disability, Gender, Age, Type of Center
<p>This study aims to measure the multiple intelligence among sample of student with autism<br />disorder and Mental disability by using teacher estimation in multiple intelligence scale and<br />its relationship with the variables: type and severity of disability, gender, and the type of<br />center, the study sample consisted of (81) student with autism and (85) student with mental<br />disability, male and female, who enrolled in private and governmental situations in Amman.<br />And for achieving the goals of the study the researcher developed the multiple intelligences<br />assessment tool consists of (56) items, were verified validity and reliability of the tool where<br />it was found that with acceptable degrees of reliability and validity.<br />After processing the data statistically and analyzed, the results indicated that the most visible<br />intelligence in mental disability is of musical intelligence, and in autism student is the<br />kinesthetic intelligence, And Autistic children also showed superiority in arithmetic and<br />kinesthetic intelligence compared with mental disability. Also children with mild disabilities<br />have high performance in all type intelligences.<br />And there are no differences in type of intelligence according to the gender and this proves<br />that disability affects the brain regardless of the gender. While the adolescents have<br />superiority in each of the linguistic, social and musical intelligence, there are no differences<br />in the multiple intelligences depending on the type of center which the student attends in it.</p><p> </p>