What are the symptoms of mild mental retardation?

Mental retardation is a synonym that no one likes. And they don’t like others talking about their children having intellectual problems and other things. Some children show extremely poor performance in various life skills and are unable to complete tasks normally like other children. Therefore, parents need to think more and diagnose and treat their children based on their children's various manifestations. Below is a detailed introduction to the various manifestations of mild mental retardation.

Mild mental retardation is a comprehensive symptom caused by abnormalities in the patient's genetic (gene) system due to environmental or heredity influences, in which mental development is hindered and stops developing due to various reasons before birth, during birth, or at various stages of early life. People with mild mental retardation have extremely poor learning abilities and their ability to adapt to life is also compromised. This is mainly manifested in their inability to correctly understand problems, their inability to think flexibly, and their slow speed in solving problems. There are a large number of patients with this disease all over the world.

Clinical manifestations

Children with mild mental retardation are delayed in development in all aspects. Especially language development is very late. Although they have little difficulty in using words in daily life, they have mastered very few abstract vocabulary and lack logical connections in understanding, synthesis and analysis. They can perform simple calculations but have difficulty understanding word problems. Able to recite paragraphs, but unable to apply them correctly. Most of them can reach the level of first or second grade of primary school or higher with intensive guidance, but it is unlikely that they can learn the junior high school curriculum at present. After training and education, they can do simple work. In addition, his language is rather rude, he lacks organizational skills, and his language level is poor when refuting others. There are also slow comprehension, lack of reasoning and judgment ability, slow memorization speed, simple and superficial emotional experience, poor self-control, dependent personality, immaturity, and sometimes stereotyped movements. (Can develop social interaction skills; sensory motor skills have mild developmental delays; abnormalities are difficult to detect before growing up; can only learn sixth grade primary school courses in adolescence; can adapt to society under guidance, can generally acquire social and vocational skills, can maintain a minimum standard of living, but under unusual social or economic pressures, need guidance and help).

Specifically, there are the following points:

1. The perception speed slows down, and it is easier to accept stimulation of the visual pathway than auditory stimulation;

2. Severe distraction and very narrow attention span;

3. Poor memory. Some knowledge can only be learned after countless repetitions. If it is not repeated, it will be completely forgotten.

4. Poor speech ability, can only speak simple words and sentences;

5. Poor thinking ability, lack of abstract thinking ability, imagination and generalization ability, and inability to draw inferences from one example;

6. They have basically no concept of numbers and can learn simple addition and subtraction calculations by mechanical memory;

7. Emotional instability and poor self-control;

8. Weak will;

9. Poor communication skills and difficulty in learning interpersonal communication.