Symptoms of mental retardation

In the context of eugenics and good parenting, what parents worry about most is their children's intellectual development. This is mainly due to changes in lifestyle, environmental pollution, and food insecurity. Children's health is threatened in various ways, so people are more worried about their intellectual development. For many parents, they don’t know how to determine whether their children have developmental delays.

In fact, children's intellectual development has symptoms. Generally speaking, developmentally delayed and gifted children will convey their symptoms to others through their daily behaviors. Therefore, as long as you understand the relevant manifestations, you can basically confirm whether there is intellectual disability. So, what are the symptoms of intellectual disability?

Generally speaking, if infants under 3 years old have one or more of the following abnormal manifestations, it highly indicates the possibility of mental retardation:

1. Abnormal crying, that is, the time from stimulation to crying is long, sometimes repeated or continuous stimulation is needed to induce crying, or the crying is sharp, or the crying is small and weak; some children do not like to cry and appear unusually "well-behaved".

2. Babies have poor sucking ability and are late in chewing, so they are prone to swallowing disorders and vomiting when eating solid food.

3. Sleeping too much and being difficult to wake up.

4. Babies who are over 100 days old cannot hold their heads up or have difficulty turning their heads, and one or both eyes are constantly looking inward or outward.

5. The baby only shows a smile after being 100 days old, and the expression is dull. By 6 months old, the baby cannot show a natural smile.

6. The actions of looking at and playing with hands still persist after six months.

7. Slow response to external stimuli. At 6 months old, the baby cannot focus on slowly moving objects above the face, cannot turn the head in the direction of the sound, cannot turn over by himself, and cannot sit steadily without the help of CR.

8. The baby still drools frequently at 7 to 9 months and grinds his teeth when awake.

9. By 9 months old, the baby cannot actively reach out to take things, and cannot use his legs to support his weight when an adult helps him.

10. Motor development, such as lifting the head while lying on the stomach, sitting, standing, and walking, lags behind normal children by 3 months or more; and walking is unstable.

11. Language development is delayed. By 10 months old, the baby cannot babble and his pronunciation is not clear.

12. Lack of interest in people and environment around, dislike of interacting with others, and lack of emotional attachment.

With the renewal of concepts, parents are not only concerned about the degree of physical development of their children, but also pay attention to whether their intellectual development has been achieved. In fact, generally speaking, as long as there are no signs of intellectual retardation, the development is normal and parents do not need to worry about their children's intelligence. Of course, if you find that your child has intellectual retardation, you must intervene in time to avoid intellectual problems in the child.