Maggy

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/stories/539.asp

To quote.

"With a child like Mark you can tell as soon as they walk in, 'that's a bright child'. They just have this sort of intensity, and maybe they're not so good at relating to people," she says.

"It means he's not like other kids, basically. His needs are way different than a normal six year old. He will never fit perfectly into a class where he's with aged peers. That's in a nutshell what being profoundly gifted means."

To put that score in perspective, the average child Mark's age has an IQ of 100. Gifted children are around the 130 level. At 200, Mark is a genius †” even to other child geniuses.

But his mother worries about the labels that have already come with the IQ score, that of "socially isolated" and "eccentric professor".

"Nobody wants that for their child, to grow up with that image. I want him to be able to communicate with other people, but not to be frustrated academically, so it's really hard to find a balance," she says.

Helen Dudeney from the Talented and Gifted Children Association says Mark is one in a million with such a high IQ. She deals mostly with the kids that are two in every hundred †” still rare and still difficult for the public education system to handle.

"The lack of coping comes because teachers aren't trained in teaching gifted children. They're not trained in identification and what to do when identification happens," says Dudeney.

Helen believes it's also vitally important for those children to be recognised and supported in their talents, in much the same way those gifted in sport are given extra attention."


We are not talking about bright children here.We are talking about genius children.They have as much propensity to get into mischief as those who are considered 'special needs' by the members of this site.In fact a bored genius is a waste as they will switch off and become alienated from society and we maybe denied another Einstein or Hawking.

Incog.