How to take care of mentally retarded children

Children with mental retardation are a disaster for their families. Parents are very worried and need to put in a lot of energy to take care of them. Therefore, the future of these families is very pessimistic. Mental retardation is an incurable disease and can only be helped by later guidance and care to adapt to life. So, how to take care of children with mental retardation? Let’s take a look at the introduction below.

1. Improve children's ability to live independently. Including training in eating, drinking, dressing, and urinating and defecating, and arranging appropriate group activities, will help promote children's intelligence. You can give your children cards, pictures, toys, real objects, etc. of different shapes, sizes, quantities, colors, and functions to inspire their intelligence. Strengthen movement training. Movement training includes raising the head, turning over, sitting, standing, walking and other movements and balance training to train children's hand and brain coordination ability.

2. Highly nutritious diet: Let children eat more foods rich in protein, vitamins and various trace elements that are beneficial to the brain and body development, such as chicken, fresh fish, milk, lean meat, egg yolk, fungus, animal offal, fruits, beans, peanuts, millet, corn, mushrooms, kelp, cashews, pine nuts, walnuts, black sesame, etc.

3. Cultivate communication skills: Teach children face to face how to open and close their mouths, move their tongues forward and backward, left and right, up and down, whistle, puff their cheeks, etc., and communicate orally. It is best to let children learn some simple words first: for example: mom, dad, aunt, I, eat, etc., so that children can experience the pleasure of simple communication with others and gradually actively imitate and learn.

From the above introduction, although how to take care of mentally retarded children is a relatively difficult problem to do, it is really very difficult to take care of mentally retarded children. It requires tremendous energy, and even the entire family. Therefore, we must have regular prenatal checkups when giving birth to try to reduce the instances of fetal damage and prevent the baby from suffering from mental retardation.