THINKING DEFICIENCIES & DORMANT SKILLS 

Some children can lack the necessary conditions to develop their full THINKING POTENTIAL through the natural processes of stimulation that they receive from their learning activities at school or other natural environments; rich and varied as these experiences may be. 

Their engagement with these stimulus may not serve to fully ignite their thinking operations, some of which can remain obscure to the child and thus operate in a fragile manner or be under-active.

SO HOW DOES A CHILD'S MISS OUT ON THESE DEVELOPMENTS IN A NORMAL STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT?

The simple answer is one size does not fit all, or one method, one activity does not serve every child equally. Every child is different and learns in their own unique way.

While many children easily access and engage their thinking functions in a self exploratory environment, others require a more explicit and guided approach to engage their thinking OPERATIONS. 

A multitude of favourable conditions may have facilitated developments in the ignited learner's early academic years. They may have experienced successes to consolidate their successful habits.

On the other hand, those children requiring more coaching and explicit teaching, may not have experienced sufficient conditions for activation and development. They may have had questions that they did not even know how to ask to help themselves.

As these children move to the next level of academic challenges in a new school year they may experience gaps in their thinking pathways. They may have missed the right conditions to make the necessary connections or TO IGNITE. The stimulus they interacted with may have appeared ambiguous or vague to them. (remember most learning occurs in content driven environments so the finer mechanisms of thinking is usually wrapped in content and not isolated and overly visible)

If we were to further compare these differences between learners we can use the language of programming. Some applications are user friendly and easier to install, others may need more guidance and training.