Characteristics of patients with language disorders and the theory of multiple intelligences

ABSTRACT

Purpose:

to investigate which intelligence, described in the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, favors the development of language (linguistic intelligence) of the patients, in relation to the studied variables: development phase (children and adolescents), sex and preferential intelligences.

Methods:

the quantitative-qualitative approach was used, with the identification by content analysis of the preferred intelligences of the 107 patients participating in the investigation and the intelligences contemplated in each therapy. After the coding of these data in numbers, the results obtained in the 1,802 therapies analyzed were compared with the development phase, sex and preferential intelligences, using a statistical test.

Results:

in the analysis of the data, it was evidenced that the results obtained in the therapy differ between children and adolescents, according to the intelligences contemplated, which is also observed when considering females and males, but to a lesser extent.

Conclusion:

it is important to observe the characteristics of age, sex and preferential intelligences, in relation to the contemplation of the different intelligences in the activities developed in the therapy, with a view to the qualification of the results.

Keywords:
Language Therapy; Distribution by Age; Distribution by Sex; Intelligence