Why youth mental retardation?

Mental retardation may be congenital or acquired right in the first years of life. In addition to genetic causes, scientists believe that inappropriate social environments can also cause this disease.

At a mild level, children with developmental delays can still attend primary classes, but learning is very difficult and learning outcomes are poor. At moderate levels, children are almost unable to learn, cannot calculate but language is enough to communicate in everyday life and can do simple tasks. If the disease is severe, the language will not be or very poor, children cannot communicate, always need regular caregivers.

Educational environment has a great influence on mental development (Photo: TTO) There are many reasons for mental retardation such as genetics, harmful effects on mothers during pregnancy, especially in 3 months. head (suffering from some viral diseases, parasites, taking some drugs harmful to the fetus). Preterm birth, children with asphyxia, obstetric interventions, acquired diseases in the early years and lack of stimulation of the social environment are also factors that cause disease.

In the above reasons, the role of genetics or social environment is always debated. Some authors emphasize the role of genetics and deny or neglect environmental factors. They give evidence like children of people with mental retardation have a higher incidence of this disease in the population. This conclusion is not conclusive, because these children must live in an unfavorable cultural environment and suffer from both genetic and environmental factors.

Researching children who are children of mental retardation but adopted in families with good or normal intelligence showed that the rate of this disease is much lower than that of children living in families. them.

Among the very young children who live in the absence of care, such as being left behind, orphaned, many children have lower intellectual development than normal. Some children lost in the forest for a long time, completely isolated from the cultural and social environment of the people have very poor intellect and it is difficult to teach if the children are relatively large.

There must be appropriate educational methods

Thus, both genetics and environment can affect intellectual development, in which environmental factors are very important. Therefore, in order for children to have good intellectual development, parents should invest a lot of time to play and cuddle with their children because of these factors that children have the conditions to imitate and study.

Parents need to buy some toys to help children develop their intelligence such as puzzles, word puzzles, games that need creativity . But in families without economic conditions, parents do not necessarily These toys must be purchased, which can collect small blocks of wood, clay for molding, paper pens for children to draw . and display games suitable for children. Parents should let children go to kindergartens and kindergartens so that they can have contact and learn from them, from teachers.

Mild and moderate mental retardation children can improve well with educational methods. Education and teaching must be persistent, creative and as soon as possible. This disease can be detected early by symptoms such as slowness, sitting, standing, walking, delayed language development (both in terms of language understanding and expression) . to bring children to early check-up at the health center mental health. It is best to take children to special schools for children with mental retardation. In places where these facilities are not yet available, parents and relatives must be good, enthusiastic, creative and persistent teachers to teach their own children, giving them the best environment for intellectual development and later self-reliance.