2. INTRODUCTION
Mental Retrdation is a state of development defiail that begins in
childhood and result in singnificant limitation of intelleat and poor
adaption to the demards of every day life .
MR affects about 1.3% of population .
Majarity of cases are idiopathic .
Most common mild Mr (75-90) after goes unrecognised.
More common in lower socio- economic groups .
3. “Mental Retardation means significantly subaverage general
intelleatral functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive
behaviour and manifested during the developmental period , that
adversely affected a childs educational perfarmace .
(According to Daroth D. theodare)
DEFINITION
4. “ Group of disorders that have in common deficits of adaptive &
intellectual function and or age of onset before mulurity is reached ” .
(According to R. shreevani)
“Mental retardation refers to significantly subaverage general
intellectual functioning resulting in or associated with concurrent
impairments in adaptive behavior & manifested during the
developmental period ” .
(American Association on Mental
Deficiency,1983).
6. Mild Retardation (IQ 50-70)
This is commonest type of mental retardation
accounting for 85-90% of all cases. These individuals have minimum
retardation in sensory-motor areas.
Moderate Retardation (IQ 35-50)
About 10% of mentally retarded come under this
group.
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Severe Retardation (IQ 20-35)
Severe mental retardation is often
recognized early in life with poor motor development & absent or
markedly delayed speech & communication skills.
Profound Retardation (IQ below 20)
This group accounts for 1-2% of all mentally
retarded. The achievement of developmental milestones is markedly
delayed. They require constant nursing care & supervision.
10. Perinatal Factors
Birth asphyxia
Prolonged or difficult
birth
Prematurity
Kernicterus
Postnatal factors
Infections
i. Encephalitis
ii. Measles
iii. Meningitis
iv. Septicemia
Accidents
Lead poisoning
Environmental & socio-cultural
Factors
Cultural deprivation
Low socio-economic status
Inadequate caretakers
Child abuse
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11. Failure to achieve developmental
milestones.
Deficiency in cognitive functioning such
as inability to follow commands or
directions.
Failure to achieve intellectual
developmental markers .
Reduced ability to learn or to meet
academic demands .
Expressive or receptive language .
CLINICAL MANIFESTSTIONS
12. Psychomotor skill deficits
Difficulty performing self-esteem
Irritability when frustrated or upset
Depression or labile moods
Acting-out behavior
Persistence of infantile behavior
Lack of curiosity.
15. DIAGNOSIS
History collection from parents & caretakers
Physical examination
Neurological examination
Assessing milestones development
Investigations
– Urine & blood examination for metabolic disorders
– Culture for cytogenic & biochemical studies
– Amniocentesis in infant chromosomal disorders
– chorionic villi sampling
– Hearing & speech evaluation
16. EEG, especially if seizure are present
CT scan or MRI brain, for example, in tuberous
sclerosis
Thyroid function tests when cretinism is
suspected
Psychological tests like Stanford Binet
Intelligence Scale & Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children’s (WISC), for categorizing the child’s
level of disability.
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17. TREATMENT MODALITIES
Environmental supervision .
Behavior management .
Monitoring the child’s development needs & problems.
Programs that maximize speech, language, cognitive, psychomotor,
social, self-care, & occupational skills.
Ongoing evaluation for overlapping psychiatric disorders, such as
depression, bipolar disorder, & ADHD.
Family therapy to help parents develop coping skills & deal with guilt
or anger.
Early intervention programs for children younger than 3 with mental
retardation
Provide day schools to train the child in basic skills, such as bathing .
19. NURSING DIAGNOSIS
•Self care deficit related to allered physical mobility or lack of maturity .
•Impaired verbal communication related to develop mental alteration .
•Impaired social interaction related to speech deficiencies or difficalty
adhering to conventional social behaviour.
•Anxiety related to jhospitalization and absence of familiar surrounding .
•Activity intalerece Related to fatigue general ability and discomfart .
22. PRIMARY PREVENTION
• Improvement in socioec onomic condition .
• Education to remove the misconception .
• Medical measure for the good prenatal medical care .
• Universal immurization of children .
• Failitating the research activities to study the care of mertal
retardation .
• Genetic courselling for the risk parerts .
23. SECONDARY PREVENTION
• Early detection and treatment of preventable disarders.
• Early detection of hardicaps in sensary motar or beharioural ares
with early remedical measures treatment .
• Early treatment of carrectable disarder like infection .
• Early recognition of presence of mental Retardation .
24. TERTIARY PREVENTIONS
• Adequate treatment of psychological and behaviouer problems .
• Behavioural modification using the principals of past and negative
reifarcement .
• Rehabilitation in vocational physical and social areas .
• Parental counselling .
