MENTAL RETARDATION

Significant Connections for Families of a MR Child: (Benchmark Assessment)

Significant Connections for Families of a MR Child: (Benchmark Assessment)

Introduction

The term mental retardation is often confusing and seen as derogatory. Some think that retardation is clinically diagnosed only on the basis of below-normal intellect (IQ) and individuals with mental retardation cannot protect themselves. Actually, in order to be diagnosed an individual with mental retardation; the individual has to have both considerably low IQ and significant issues in changing lifestyle. However, most children with mental retardation can understand a good deal and as adult it can lead at least partly separate lifestyle. Most of all, they can enjoy their life just as everyone else. In the past, parents usually recommend to institutionalize a child with significant mental retardation. This is not done any longer. The objective is to sustain children with mental retardation to stay in the family and take aspect in the community. In many countries and developed states children with mental disabilities are allowed to attain education at states expense. Mental retardation may be challenging by physical and actual issues. The child may also have problems with reading, hearing or speaking. All these issues can lower the child's potential. It is very important that a child must be completely assessed properly to find out his or her skills and potential difficulties along with strengths. Common testing as well as testing in areas such as neurology (the stressed system), treatments, psychiatry, special knowledge, reading, language and perspective, and treatments are useful in order to evaluate child's potential. These tests for evolutions are conducted by professional doctors and psychiatrists.

Discussion

Doctors and health experts often relate children for the necessary consultation and testing and put together the results of those test along with the household and the school. They then create a complete treatment and knowledge plan for children with such difficulties. Emotional and personality conditions may also be associated with the issue of mental retardation and they may intervene with the child progress. Most children with such mental retardation identify that they are behind others of their own age. Some may become disappointed, taken or troubled, or act bad to get the attention of other young people and grownups. Moreover, teenagers and adult people with mental retardation may become frustrated. These individuals might not have enough speaking abilities to discuss their thoughts and their depressive disorder may be shown by new issues, for example in their conduct of eating and getting to sleep. Beginning analysis of mental conditions in children with mental retardation causes early treatments. Remedies are one aspect of overall treatments and management of children with mental retardation. Periodic assessment may with children and adults help the family members of such people in establishing appropriate objectives, restrictions, possibilities to be success and other methods which will help children and adults with mental retardation to manage the pressures of growing up (Bristol, Gallagher & Schopler,1988).

Background of Research

Many researchers examine that parents of school-age children have issues in the developing basic capabilities ...