What is it like to have a mentally retarded child in the family?

Mental retardation, or mental retardation (MR), also known as mental retardation, is a common developmental disorder in childhood. Mental retardation is mainly manifested in low social adaptability, learning ability and self-care ability, and its language, attention, memory, comprehension, insight, abstraction, thinking, imagination and other mental activity abilities are significantly behind those of children of the same age. The overall prevalence of mental retardation is about 1% to 2%.

Mental retardation is diagnosed on the basis of psychological tests and adaptive assessments.

Each child's development and personality are different, and each child's intelligence is also very different, but for the mother Laishui, the child's intelligence needs to be developed in time, which needs to be exercised with the parents, so when the child is not as intelligent as other children, what should the mother do? So what to do if a child is mentally retarded?

What to do if your child is mentally retarded.

1. Memory, numerical computing ability: including children's attention training, attention, memory training, memory enhancement training, intensive memory training and collaborative training of multiple abilities. These trainings are very effective for those with mental retardation, and I hope parents will read them carefully.

2. Motor ability: train children to crawl, turn over, sit, stand, walk, run, jump and other large movements of proficiency, but also to train the flexibility and accuracy of children's limbs, from training children to grasp large, close things, to fiddle with objects, to unbuttons, threading needles and threads and other fine movements, and finally to disassemble and assemble items and other complex actions. Assist**, exercise must not be missing.

3. Language ability: When the child is not yet able to speak, it is necessary to speak to the child and communicate with the child emotionally. Let children listen to more **, dialogues, nursery rhymes, stories, etc., enhance children's language perception and comprehension skills, and teach children to make monophonic sounds in entertainment, until they teach children simple words and sentences.

Causes of mental retardation in children.

1. Genetic factors, if the parents are mentally retarded, their children are also prone to mental retardation. According to statistics, the father is mentally retarded, the mother is normal, and the chance of mental retardation in their children is less than 10%; The mother has mental retardation and the father is normal, and the chance of mental retardation in children is greater than 10%;

2. Nutritional factors, malnutrition, especially protein deficiency, will have a negative impact on the development of the brain. If the mother is severely malnourished during pregnancy, especially protein deficiency, the fetus's brain development will be poor. Severe malnutrition in the first 6 months of life can also have a greater impact on mental development.

3. Childbirth factors, if the child encounters dystocia at birth, or has intracranial hemorrhage, or severe asphyxia for a time, it will affect the child's intellectual development and cause lifelong mental retardation.

4. If the mother encounters viral infection during pregnancy, such as rubella virus, it will not only cause malformations of some organs of the fetus, but also affect the intelligence of children; If a baby is born for a few months with encephalitis, meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis, etc., it will affect the development of the brain and cause mental retardation;

What to do if your child is mentally retarded. Children's intelligence can progress in communication with parents, and when the baby has low intelligence, you can play some intellectual games with your parents, which is also very effective. There are many reasons for a child's low intelligence, because genetics or a serious illness that the child has had are the causes of mental retardation.

Children with mental retardation are divided into severity, and the more serious ones will be dull-sighted, slow to react, and speak illogically; Children with mild mental retardation will be less active, slow to do things, lack of initiative, low efficiency, etc., this situation should be detected and done as soon as possible.

Parents must not give up, do not scold, and do not insult, so they must patiently guide their children and educate their children.

Mental retardation (MR) refers to mental retardation (MR) under the age of 18 whose brain development age is significantly lower than the average for children of the same age. There are also many names such as mental retardation, mental insufficiency, mental deficiency, mental retardation, mental retardation, mental retardation, mental retardation, mental retardation, mental retardation and intellectual disability.

There are no children with low intelligence, only children who do not study well, people are constantly learning and growing and working hard to make progress, even if the starting point is low, but if you work hard, you will succeed, come on.

If the child is mentally retarded, then he should not give up, he should usually take more pictures to talk to him, and even teach him, and gradually develop his brain, so that his intelligence can also be improved, so it can not be compared with normal children. As long as you build on your own foundation, that's fine.

: The baby's mental retardation may be: 1. Before pregnancy, the mother has been exposed to harmful substances or has an intrauterine infection.

2. It may also be that the child has had amniotic fluid infection, intrauterine distress, suffocation and other conditions after birth. 3. After the child was born, there was a head injury.

For children with mental retardation, it is best to go to the hospital for a detailed examination to see if the child is caused by a lack of certain elements, or because of acquired factors, the most important thing is to let the child eat more brain-healthy food, so that the child does not stay up late and goes to bed before nine o'clock every night.

Children with low intelligence can only be parents who have worked hard, and often accompany their children to play some open intellectual games, or go to training institutions to see.