10 characteristics of children with low IQ, these abnormal manifestations

Nowadays, many children have intellectual disabilities. Parents all hope that their children can grow up healthily. Intellectual disabilities are something no one wants to see. If you find that your child has the following symptoms, you should be alert to the signs of intellectual disabilities.

1. Visual and hearing impairment

Severe visual and auditory defects, such as severe myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, total deafness, and hearing loss, also have a great impact on intelligence. Because vision and hearing are the means of communication between people and the outside world, they will lead to intellectual development delay.

2. Lack of concentration

Mentally retarded children have poor concentration. Their attention span is significantly shorter than that of normal children. Even when they are 5-6 years old, they can only concentrate on one thing for no more than 5-6 minutes. They also pay little attention to the outside world.

3. Hyperactivity

In contrast to children who are too quiet, hyperactivity is also a characteristic of some intellectually retarded children. Many mentally retarded children cannot stay still for a while and are active all the time. This is especially evident in children aged 4-5 years old. This kind of hyperactivity is different from the liveliness and mischief of normal children. It has no purpose, but is just an uncontrollable excitement. He touches everything he comes across and even knocks over chairs and stools without knowing how to pick them up.

4. Poor responsiveness to the environment

Soon after birth, a normal baby begins to become interested in people and things in the environment, and as long as he is awake, he will always look around. However, mentally retarded children are indifferent to the environment. In the first 1-2 months after birth, the baby will not make eye contact with adults and will not smile when teased. The child was very quiet all day and rarely cried. These children are often praised for being too quiet, and their intellectual problems are often easily overlooked.

5. Language development is delayed

Normal babies will imitate sounds at 7-8 months old, call mom and dad at around one year old, can say a dozen words at one and a half years old and understand simple instructions, can ask simple questions at around 2 years old, and can basically express their thoughts at around 3 years old. If these symptoms appear only after a child is four to five months behind or even one to two years behind, they should be regarded as a sign of intellectual disability. The age at which they start speaking and understanding what others say is significantly later than children of the same age. Often, they still cannot call "Dad" or "Mom" after the age of two or three, and cannot understand simple instructions. At the age of five or six, they can only say words but not complete sentences.