Causes of Learning Disabilities In Children

If you have children who are unable to learn, understand what you want, you can exchange ideas
with your child's doctor or nurse. Have children who are unable to learn is not the end of the world. If you or your doctor thinks that there is a problem with your child, you can take him to a specialist in growth and development. To help your child achieve optimal potential, it is very important to get help as early as possible.

The inability of children, especially intellectual abilities, known also as the retardation / mental retardation, is a term used when someone has difficulty or limited ability to learn at the expected level and function in daily life according to the age of the child.

The level of intellectual disability vary widely in children from a very mild to the severe problems. Children who have an intellectual disability have difficulty to express their wants and needs to others compared with normal children and they have trouble taking care of yourself.

Intellectual inability to cause a child to learn and grow more slowly than other children the same age. There is a difference between normal children and children who have intellectual disability, are needed more time for children who have an intellectual disability to learn to speak, walk, dress or feed themselves without help, and they may have difficulty learning in school. For parents at home, observe your child while growing.

Intellectual incapacity can be caused by problems that began before the child turns 18 years - even before birth. Intellectual incapacity can be caused by injury, disease, or problems in the brain. For many children, the cause of intellectual disability were unknown. Some of the most common causes of intellectual disability - such as Down syndrome (Down syndrome), fetal alcohol syndrome (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, FAS), the fragility of gene X syndrome (Fragile X syndrome, FXS), genetic conditions, birth defects, and infections - occurred before birth.
Intellectual incapacity can happen when the baby is born or shortly after birth. Other causes of intellectual disability does not occur until a child becomes older, including a serious head injury, stroke, or certain infections.

What are the signs of intellectual disability?

Usually, the more severe level of intellectual disability, the earlier the onset also signs that can be observed. However, for children this early age, it is still difficult to say how it impacts the future.

There are many signs of intellectual disability. For example, children with intellectual disability characteristics are:

• he was sitting, crawling or walking more slowly than the kids his age
• he was late to talk, or have difficulty speaking
• difficult to remember and concentrate
• he has trouble understanding social rules
• have trouble seeing the results of their actions
• have difficulties to solve problems

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its always a hope in every problems