Disparities in cognitive and emotional development and social needs of gifted students

Irena Pufal-Struzik

Abstract


Parents and teachers are struggling with various problems concerning children with high intelligence, outstanding academic abilities, who are usually called gifted children, without consideration that this group also includes children possessing other types of special abilities (e.g. artistic, scientific, leadership). There are many causes of the problems. One of them is asynchronous development of the child prodigies and their unique individual characteristics. Other causes result from external factors. The most important are: diagnostic difficulties leading to erroneous, often late identification of gifted students among peers and neglecting of their needs. Another is insufficient professional knowledge of parents and teachers on the specifics of the development of gifted children, the use of common knowledge to explain the unusual behaviour of these children, depending on the type and level of ability, lack of understanding of their needs and the lack of support that takes into consideration these personal and learning needs. The article focuses on reminding the most common problems in the development and behaviour of gifted children.


Keywords


gifted child; developmental asynchrony; difficulties in the emotional and social development

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2016.29.3.69
Date of publication: 2017-06-28 11:17:17
Date of submission: 2016-03-10 15:16:05


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