Counselling techniques to prepare parents of Retarded Children
Mental retardation in children is very painful and disheartening for parents. Presently, paediatricians put more focus on the retarded child and his family and observe that parents are not well prepared to deal with mentally retarded kids. Therefore, they recommend parents to get counselling from expert mental health counsellors to gain basic understanding of their role to face these problems. Mental retardation has an adverse impact on learning. Mentally retarded child is intellectually incapable to grasp things around him and it slows down the academic learning process. Mentally retarded children need attention to manage daily activities and they have low IQ (Below 70) which disrupts their ability to cope up with society expectations. Symptoms of mental retardation are visible in childhood. There are several causes of mental retardation such as Down Syndrome and foetal alcohol syndrome which put a child at greater risk of mental retardation. Certain drugs can adversely impa...