The modifiability of intelligence has been demonstrated by thousands of research studies on Feuerstein's work, including a recent study of a youngster who at the age of nine, because of uncontrollable seizures had his left hemisphere removed, after which he learned to talk, read, and learn for the first time. This young man was a presenter at the 1999 Teaching for Intelligence conference in San Francisco, and plans to become a teacher of students with disabilities. Programs teaching intelligence are being applied in every setting from homes to schools to board rooms, at every ability level, and at every age. Motorola is working with all three of the above theories in developing the intelligence of their employees worldwide. Intelligence is not all in our heads.
Intelligence is also throughout the human body.
We not only remember better what we physically do, but many learners can more easily understand complicated abstractions when they take concrete form in their hands. Cuisinaire rods, models, constructions, and dramatizations utilize this kind of intelligence. Part of our intelligence is also in our interaction with other people. Some of the most powerful learning is social, and is activated in discussion, dialogue, and debate. Some of our intelligence lies in resources both in nature that offers continual opportunities for new learning, as well as in those that human beings have created such as books and libraries, films and TV, data bases and the Internet.