Chapter eleven talks about the MI theory and the impact it has had on special education, and how it can be better used in the field of special education. One really interesting thing that I found in this chapter that had never occurred to me before was the fact that when a student has been found to have learning disabilities they do not have learning disabilities in all of the eight areas; usually it’s only in one or two areas. Something striking about this chapter was the idea that if we used MI to help strengthen the weak areas, and used the intelligences that they excelled in there would be some very positive outcomes. For example there would be fewer referrals to special education classes. This is every educators ideal, but if we can do something to make it happen we should try it every chance we can. That is what I plan on doing.
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