Raising intelligent children
Each individual possesses three types of “intelligences”. common quotients we are familiar with are IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient).
however, according to Prof howard Garden of harvard University, found that humans also have Multiple Intelligences.
Fourteen-year-old Ivan Lee Gai Seng was an intelligent boy who performed well in primary school.
however, his academic performance dropped gradually after he joined junior high school.
he scored the lowest grade among his classmates in last year’s final exam.
This caused him a lot of stress and emotional pain over the past year.
No matter how hard he tried to read and do revision, he just could not seem to improve.
Feeling helpless, Ivan’s mother decided to seek professional consultation at childPsych, the child Psychology division of the International Psychology centre.
The child psychoeducational assessment started with an interview to review Ivan’s developmental background to identify the cause of his problem.
The child psychologist also conducted various international validated psychometric tests such as Wechsler Intelligence Scale for children (WISc-IV), fourth edition (Wechsler, 2004) to diagnose his IQ and learning ability.
The assessments revealed that Ivan has low IQ due to the constant discouragement from asking questions by his parents since young, which suppressed his curiosity and affected his IQ.
he was recommended to take the Inborn Talent Gene Test to discover his hidden talents and innate personality traits so that the psychologists and parents could choose the right development programme for his future.
a programme of enhancing child intelligence quotient psychotherapy, which involved several activities related to asking logical question, was prescribed for Ivan and his parents.
Research showed that reasoning is closely allied with other domains of inquiry in psychology.
according to psychologists Dr David Lohman and Dr Joni Lakin from the University of Iowa, reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making represent different but overlapping aspects of human intelligence.
This therapeutic programme is specially designed to develop and improve a child’s intelligence quotient.
In addition, this will help expand the child’s knowledge, vocabulary and comprehension abilities.
The good news is IQ and intelligence can be improved with the right psychoeducational environment such as asking IQ-related logical and information based questions.
It is never too late to improve your child’s IQ but it is recommended to start early.
This article is contributed by childPsych, centre for children and adolescences Psychology of International Psychology centre’s team of psychologist and psychonutritional therapists.
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