Mental Retardation

        Mental retardation also known as intellectual disability is a condition diagnosed before age 18. "Someone who has an intellectual disability will have trouble learning and functioning in everyday life." The person won't be able talk or write like other people their age. The person would be slower to learn other skills like acting around other people and getting dressed. The person will have more trouble learning and becoming an independent person depends on how big the disability. "An injured brain or a problem prevents the brain from developing normally because of intellectual disabilities." These problems usually happens during the baby days or before it was born. It's either the baby doesn't get enough oxygen, it's born way too early, or gets a serious brain infection. The main problem is the difficulty of understanding and thinking which can impact their social and practical skills.

If you think you have Mental Retardation(Intellectual Disability), you should be getting these symptoms. These things aren't that noticeable sometimes until your kid reaches a certain age. It could also appear during infancy. So some symptoms of this disorder is talking late or having trouble walking, difficulty remembering things, and behavior problems or tantrums. Sometimes there can also be other effects like seizures, vision problems, and mood disorders, like autism. Things that can help with this disorder is that there's special education for free through the public school system. This also includes preschoolers. For babies and toddlers, they have early intervention programs to work with parents to write an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). It includes speech therapy, family counseling, nutrition services, physical therapy, or training with special assistive devices. When helping a child with this disorder, getting the child involved with activities and talk to other parents that have children with the same situation is good way to help them out.

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