Symptoms of the disease

In modern Russian medicine there are 3 degrees of oligophrenia, or mental retardation. Each species is characterized by certain signs.The brain of oligophrenic children is affected before the start of speech activity. Photo: Getty Depending on the degree of development of the intellect, the following types are distinguished:

• Debility is a mild degree of illness. Children with this diagnosis communicate easily with people, their speech is well developed. Difficulties arise in solving intellectual problems; they cannot establish a causal connection between events and make logical generalizations.
• Imbecility - the average degree of mentalviolations. Speech difficulties are characteristic of this disease. Children are able to communicate with people, but only at the household level, they can make a simple request. Certain activities allow you to teach your child basic self-care skills.
• Idiocy is a severe form of oligophrenia. Such children can not serve themselves, throughout their lives they need constant care. In addition, it is difficult to communicate with them and it is difficult to understand what they want.

All these forms are caused by organic lesions.central nervous system. Signs of a particular form of the disease help establish the diagnosis and provide the child with the necessary assistance in adapting to living conditions.

How to recognize oligophrenic

In order to establish the degree of retardationexperts are testing the child. According to the score, psychologists and teachers make the appropriate conclusion. You can not use only this method. It is necessary to evaluate together the degree of adaptation of the child to social life, his ability to care for himself, to communicate and the general level of education.

Peculiarities of mental development

For children suffering from oligophrenia, it is characteristicinadequate mental development, they have difficulties in all areas of the psyche. Children lack curiosity, they do not need new impressions and do not seek them. They are difficult to learn, as they slowly perceive everything new. Such children have superficial, primitive thinking and emotional immaturity. In addition, they have motor disorders. These children are hard to adapt to the environment. Therefore, it is necessary that they communicate more with healthy people. This will allow to develop all possible abilities, children will have the opportunity to learn certain skills and adapt to social conditions. Take care of children and do everything possible so that they do not feel inferior

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