It is said that aging is important at the age of three. When a baby is three years old, parents pay extra attention to their child's learning ability. If their child is not as good as other children in a certain aspect, parents will think that their child is particularly stupid and worry about whether their baby has low intelligence. What should I do if my baby's intelligence is really a bit low?
What to do if a 3-year-old baby has low intelligence
1. For those whose causes have been identified through etiological treatment, such as chronic diseases, poisoning, long-term malnutrition, hearing and visual impairments, efforts should be made to remove the causes as much as possible to partially or completely restore their intelligence. Children with endocrine and metabolic abnormalities such as hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria should be diagnosed early and treated with thyroid hormone replacement or phenylketonuria special dietary therapy to improve their intelligence level. MR caused by social, psychological, and cultural reasons can be improved by changing environmental conditions, allowing them to live in a friendly and harmonious family, and strengthening education, which can lead to intellectual advancement.
2. Training and rehabilitation should be combined with medical, social, educational, and vocational training measures to train patients according to their age and severity of MR, in order to achieve the highest possible level of intelligence.
The manifestation of low intelligence in babies
Language development is lagging behind. Normal babies can imitate sounds at 7-8 months old, call 'mom and dad' at around one year old, say about ten words at one and a half years old, understand simple instructions, ask simple questions at around 2 years old, and express their thoughts at around 3 years old.
Any delay of four to five months or even 1-2 years in exhibiting these symptoms should be considered a signal of intellectual disability. A normal baby has poor responsiveness to the environment. Shortly after birth, they become interested in people and things in the environment. As long as they are awake, they always look around. But intellectually disabled children are indifferent to their environment.
Many intellectually disabled children cannot stay quiet for a while and are constantly active, especially evident in children aged 4-5. This kind of hyperactivity is different from the liveliness and mischievousness of normal children. It has no purpose, just an uncontrollable excitement. It touches whatever it touches, knocks down chairs and stools, and doesn't know how to lift them up.
Children with intellectual disabilities have poor concentration. They have significantly shortened attention span compared to normal children. Even at the age of 5-6, the time spent concentrating on something does not exceed 5-6 minutes. They also pay little attention to the outside world.
All parents have the desire for their children to become dragons and their daughters to become phoenixes, so after their babies are born, parents will buy various toys that stimulate their sensory functions to play with them, fearing that their children will lose at the starting line. But if it is really discovered that the baby's intelligence is low, the earlier the treatment, the better the effect, and it must not be delayed.
