Looking to the Future for Word Smart Children

According to "You're Smarter Than You Think", by Thomas Armstrong, Word Smart children and adults have useful skill for many different kinds of jobs. It is important for parents of Word Smart children to encourage and expose these children to the occupations that would make satisfying and successful careers. Below are career suggestions for Word Smart people by Armstrong:

1. advertising, marketing, or copy writer
2. advocate
3. archivist
4. editor/Web editor
5. English teacher ( or any kind of teacher)
6. grant writer
7. indexer
8. information scientist (someone who uses technology to manage and use information)
9. journalist/researcher
10. lawyer/lobbyist/politician
11. speech pathologist
12. librarian
13. museum curator
14. paralegal
15. poet
16. professional public speaker/speech writer/screenwriter
17. proofreader
18. announcer
19. storyteller
20. writer/author