What should I do if my child has intellectual disabilities?

Children's intellectual disabilities can actually bring many impacts, so as parents, we must give our children more care and love. Once we find that our children have intellectual disabilities, we must consult professional treatment and adopt effective training methods to improve their intelligence.

1. When teaching and training mentally retarded children, we must do everything possible to attract the children's attention, stimulate their curiosity, cultivate their interest, and mobilize their various senses to participate in training.

2. Individual training, group training or collective training should be arranged during training. The design of training forms and the determination of training content should be based on the individual needs of the trainees.

3. The training program should be broken down into detailed and slow steps to make it easier for mentally retarded children to accept. Trainers should pay attention to the principle of taking small steps and multiple cycles in each step, so that mentally retarded children can master skills through repeated practice.

The most commonly used method in training is job analysis. That is, analyze a certain target task into several steps and train in sequence to achieve the goal. It is usually completed in either sequential or reverse order.

The sequential method is also called the forward chain method. According to the work steps, training starts from the first step, and after completing the first step, training starts with the second step, until the last step.

The reverse sequence method is also called the reverse chain method. It starts from the last step according to the work steps. After completing this step, go back to the previous step until the first step.

4. If you encounter a mentally retarded child with severe disabilities, training will take a lot of time and the effect will not be good. However, the trainer should not be anxious, but should actively find ways to help him use auxiliary tools or improve the training environment to achieve the same effect.