Is language retardation mental retardation

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Our children only speak simple words when they are almost 2 years old. It seems that they speak late. They usually know nothing about what they say. Now they are 4 years old. They feel that their children are slow growing. They are really worried about whether they are mentally retarded or not. Today, let me talk to you about whether language retardation is mental retardation.

Is language retardation mental retardation

First, language retardation refers to children's oral expression ability or language understanding ability caused by various reasons obviously lags behind the normal development level of children of the same age. Mental retardation, hearing impairment, articulation organ disease, central nervous system disease, poor language environment and other factors are the common causes of children's language retardation. If children are found to have language retardation, efforts should be made to find the cause.

Second: mental retardation (MR) and mental retardation are the main manifestations of mental retardation. The common causes are: heredity, prenatal damage including intrauterine infection, hypoxia, childbirth is birth injury, intracranial hemorrhage, premature infants, postnatal meningitis, cerebral palsy and other symptoms.

Third: mild patients with IQ 55-69, poor academic performance, often fail or repeat in ordinary school, or poor working ability, can only complete simple manual operation, can learn certain living skills and housework. No obvious speech barrier, can take care of life.

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In general, there is no specific treatment for this disease. For those with attention disorder, central stimulant can be given to improve attention.