How to treat intellectual disability in children?

Intellectual disability means that a child's intelligence is significantly below the average level. In addition, before adulthood, various adaptive behaviors have certain defects. The main cause of this disease is organic damage to the brain or incomplete development of the brain at birth. So how to treat it?

1. Symptomatic treatment. Children with mental retardation may sometimes have symptoms of hyperactivity, which can be treated as ADHD. How to treat mental retardation in children? It is not certain whether the "brain tonic drugs" on the market are effective in improving intelligence, but they generally have no serious side effects, so they can be tried. As children grow older, their intelligence may improve, but this is not necessarily due to the efficacy of the medication.

2. Drug treatment. For the few patients with clear etiology and effective treatment, timely etiological treatment should be carried out. Nootropics with a higher safety factor: γ-aminotyric acid tablets, piracetam tablets, aniracetam tablets, Brain Antai, brain aminopeptide, nerve growth factor, vincamine, cyclomandelate, brain resurrection, lysine, nucleotides, Yizhen capsules, etc.

3. Rehabilitation training. Rehabilitation training can be given to moderate patients to enable them to take care of themselves. How to treat mental retardation in children? Strengthen language training. The core of intelligence is thinking ability, and language is the tool of thinking. Therefore, in order to promote the development of intelligence, we must pay attention to language cultivation and training.

4. Sensory integration training. By using sports games to coordinate vision, hearing, touch, proprioception, and vestibular sense, abnormal sensations can be suppressed, and various normal motor sensations such as the body's balance and coordination abilities can be enhanced, which can greatly improve the efficacy of rehabilitation and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

5. Therapeutic function training. This treatment method achieves a healing effect by promoting normal reflex pathways and movements and inhibiting abnormal reflex pathways and movements, thereby restoring the normal brain response.