So often teachers do not have enough resourses to address all these needs of a child. Schools group by age and intellect and hope that intellectual, social, and emotional development is all the same. However, children and especially gifted do not typically follow this even development. Instead, they follow an asynchronous developmental pattern. That means that a six-year-old gifted child may have the intellectual needs of a ten-year-old child and the social and emotional needs of an eight-old, but the physical development of a six-year-old. In a roomful of typical six-year-old children, a teacher will find it difficult to teach to the whole gifted child.

Summer camps that specialize on all areas of a child’s development make it possible to help the whole child. Summer Camps provide gifted children with a chance to be exactly who they are. A good gifted program will be staffed with people who understand all kids of children, people who recognize that gifted children may be quite advanced intellectually, but socially and emotionally be quite like any other child of the same chronological age.