Gifted Child Vs Gifted Children

Introduction

The gifted children are the children who are witnessed to have the high performance capabilities in certain areas like that of intellectual, creativity, arts, leadership or specific academic fields and the need of such children is that there must be certain activities that should be carried out nor necessary the schools even at home so they could develop such capabilities completely. However their identification can be a difficult task for the teachers or their educational professionals since they are not a homogeneous group since there is a large variation in them. But there is a difference between the gifted children and the talented children and the difference is difficult to challenge since they are defined too loosely while

As soon as they start their schooling they meet children of their age they do not meet up their intellectual or social needs and start having the feelings of frustration and depression that straightly leads to the poor social skills and they start loosing interest in the people around them and cognitive abilities. The academic self esteem is often high in the gifted children especially at a very younger age but they are socially poor. They are really good at their school work but often poor to communicate or in their behavior and environment. The giftedness is not the quality that is put upon an individual but is actually a behavior that is displayed and then developed. (CCEA, 2006)

Challenges to Adjustment

The challenges that the gifted child might face are mentioned below:

1. Owner ship of abilities: the gifted child is quickly aware that he is not like normal people he is unaware of the abilities that he actually holds and focuses only on the fact that he not normal and begins to have lack of self-esteem.

2. Dissonance of what is actually done and what they planned to do. They are actually perfectionists.

3. Averse to risks: their sixth sense is quite fast. If a certain act

Premature identity: they start making very early attempts to achieve and adult like identity. (Willard-Holt)

The sub-types of Giftedness from a socio-emotional view

According to a research done by Betts and Neihart they proposed six categories of gifted children, which are as follows:

1. The successful gifted are usually achieving and perfectionists, they are usually admired and liked by the people around them, so they need to develop risk-taking positiveness and motivational skills in them.

2. The challenging gifted children are usually creative but they get frustrated and boredom can lead to power with those having authority. So they need to develop self-awareness and self-control and bring some flexibility in their nature.

3. The underground gifted are usually insecure and shy and are usually quite, having poor self-concepts. They may not be identified as those like gifted since they do not talk too much they need to develop some self-awareness and a chance to interact with the other gifted children.

4. The Gifted dropouts are usually angry and according to them the school systems have not fulfilled their needs and have not helped them to develop their potential. They are often termed as average or even