What are the symptoms of mental retardation in children?

Many mothers nowadays are relatively young, and they tend to get nervous or even panic when encountering things related to their children. Especially when encountering some abnormal behaviors of children, you will become overly nervous. You should learn more about children in your daily life. Now I will tell young mothers about some manifestations of different degrees of intellectual retardation in children for your reference.

1. Mild mental retardation: accounts for 75%-80% of mental retardation, IQ50~70, and adaptive behavior is mildly defective. Clinical manifestations: slightly delayed development, late language development, no major difficulty in daily language, slow reaction, lack of independent thinking, inability to cope with changes in the outside world, easily influenced by others, lack of logical connection in understanding comprehensive analysis, difficulty in grasping abstract things, poor academic performance, able to perform simple calculations but difficult to understand applied problems, able to memorize but unable to apply correctly.

2. Moderate mental retardation: accounting for about 12% of mental retardation, IQ35~49, and moderate defects in adaptive behavior. Clinical manifestations: Development is slower than normal children. Early development such as walking, speaking, and control of defecation and urination are delayed. Language ability is poor, vocabulary is limited, and expression ability is also poor. They have simple thinking but cannot understand abstract concepts. Their recognition ability, reading and calculation ability are poor. They can only add and subtract within 10 or imitate writing but cannot understand the meaning.

3. Severe mental retardation: accounting for 7%~8% of mental retardation, IQ20~34, severe defects in adaptive behavior: Clinical manifestations: delayed development in early years, slow response to surrounding things, slurred pronunciation, extremely poor expression ability, lack of abstract and comprehension ability, childish emotions, clumsy movements, often repeating purposeless movements, often accompanied by severe sensory and motor disorders, unable to calculate at all, can recognize relatives but cannot form a deep impression, cannot take care of themselves but can avoid obvious dangers.

4. Extreme mental retardation: accounts for 1%~2% of mental retardation, IQ20c gh, extremely defective adaptive behavior, clinical manifestations: poor development, no language ability, inability to recognize relatives and environment, loss of direction, very poor perception, obvious movement disorders, inflexible hands and feet, stiff joints, unable to walk, can only cry or scream to ask for food or express discomfort, accompanied by multiple diseases, poor resistance, unable to avoid danger, unable to take care of themselves, and completely dependent on others for care.

Normally, many mothers will read a lot of books about children's growth when they are pregnant. This is also a manifestation of great wisdom. It is always good to be prepared so that you will not be in a panic when encountering problems. It is a good choice to read the above articles carefully and summarize them.