The theory of multiple intelligences in people with Down’s syndrome. When talent is transformed into intelligence

Abstract

We must start from the fact that every person, with or without disability, possesses aptitudes or skills in certain disciplines. In the educational system, sometimes, these are not reflected, since the mathematical and linguistic dexterity is mainly valued. People with Down’s syndrome have an important deficit in both. Does that mean they are not intelligent? On the contrary. According to Howard Gardner and his theory of multiple intelligences defend that we all have an intelligence or potentiality, which we must develop and will be the motor to access knowledge, which will revolve the whole learning of the person, thus favoring their self-esteem and freeing it from social stigma of educational failure. To do this, it will be necessary to know the Down’s syndrome group, as well as the evolution of the concept of intelligence, to end up landing in the theory of multiple intelligences and how an intervention program can be carried out, through them, in people with Down’s syndrome.