Spatial Celebrity Profiles
Here's a list of artists and explorers who used their spatial skills to find their way. Each of them also happened to live with a disability. Their unique combination of intelligences -- strengths as well as weaknesses -- made them such successful people.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. Renaissance Man. Did you know he had a learning disability?
Admiral Peary
American arctic explorer and naval officer. He had a communicative disorder.
Vincent Van Gogh
Post-impressionist painter, originally from the Netherlands. Van Gogh had epilepsy and struggled with mental illness, including depression and dementia.
Marc Chagall
Russian Cubist and Expressionist painter. He had a communicative disorder.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and lithographer. Lautrec fell and broke both legs when he was a child and his growth was permanently stunted.
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What do your kids think?
Ask your kids if they can think of any famous people who have high spatial intelligence. Start them off with a few familiar names:
Brought to you by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Source: Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong (ASCD 1994)
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