Briefly describe the psychological characteristics of mentally backward children

Lack of self-confidence is the biggest obstacle to his growth.

There are 8 types of preschool children with special needs: visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, speech disabilities, physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, mental disabilities, multiple disabilities and other disabilities.

In China, children with special needs mainly receive education in special schools, for example, hearing-impaired children attend schools for the deaf and mute, and blind children attend schools for the blind. There are pros and cons to this approach. The concentration of teachers and facilities in special schools is not conducive to the integration of children with special needs into society.

Special schools are places with a high concentration of children with disabilities, making it difficult for each child to adapt quickly to the environment after completing school.

For example, there are 11 categories of children with disabilities in the United States and 8 categories in Japan. Education and training can be carried out as soon as the disability is discovered, so that it can reach the best level and reduce the adverse consequences of disability, so as to achieve all-round development, be able to adapt to society, and become equal members of society.

View Answer Analysis 【Correct Answer】 The characteristics of children with mental retardation in attention are poor persistence of attention, narrow attention range, and poor ability to transfer and distribute attention. Distraction is one of the most distinctive psychological characteristics of mentally retarded children, especially those with mental retardation in preschool. Children with mental retardation have a narrow attention span.

The main manifestation is that normal children can see many things at a glance, while mentally backward children need to pay attention to them one by one. Children with mental retardation have poor ability to transfer and distribute attention. The main manifestation is that the mentally backward children are staring at the preschool mentally backward children, and they will not consciously shift their attention from one thing to another.

Answer analysis] See textbook p80.

Knowledge points of this question: the physical and mental characteristics of preschool children with backward intelligence

In terms of thinking, the thinking of children who are backward in intelligence mostly stays in the stage of concrete image thinking, lacking the ability to analyze, synthesize, abstract, and generalize, and is stupid because they are completely governed by the single feature or intuitive image of things, and cannot understand the common and essential things hidden in things.

Mentally retarded children, also known as mentally handicapped children, refer to children whose intelligence is significantly lower than the developmental level of normal children of the same age, and are accompanied by certain learning disabilities and adaptive behavior disorders.

The main characteristics of mentally retarded children: Mentally retarded children have some differences from normal children in terms of cognition, emotion, will, personality characteristics, etc., and the following mainly describes the cognitive characteristics of mentally retarded children.

In terms of perceptual staring, children with mental retardation are not sensitive to perception and have difficulty distinguishing details.