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Originally Posted by Lovebird
If I'm not mistaken, there are different types of intelligence. One can be not particularly gifted with language skills, but be a whiz at something else like maybe finding their way around a new place, or fixing an appliance. I once knew a man who was about on the level of Forrest Gump or the Waterboy with his intellect, but he could program a VCR faster than I could type those words--and I'm a typist.
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Yes, my son is a good example of different types of intelligence. He has a learning disability in written language (has good reading comprehension but has trouble writing). Yet he is gifted in math and spatial reasoning. He was in special ed. English and gifted math classes at the same time. It confused some of his teachers who didn't know how to teach him effectively.
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