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

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

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