I have observed from a distance that programs may be more readily available to a gifted child who has the requisite maturity for the class.
I have also noticed programs that have all of the different types of gifted kids together and, to be honest, there can be interference between different types of learners, so a gifted support teacher would really have to understand what is going on in order to know who needs which type of environment and at what time.
A gifted person is used to, by nature, taking into account every possible, probable, impossible, improbable factor, but as far as I can tell the non-gifted people don't work that way at all.
In any school year figure out what your child and family need, communicate it and work from there. I think it is safe to say that it feels like trial and error, but that is how you are finding the way even if the paths are numerous, endless, curvy, straight, etc. It is part of the gifted family experience and it is a lot of work for the parents for sure.
