8 Signs of Mental Retardation

Difficulty: Individuals have difficulty remembering and recalling information they recently encounter.

How to Improve: Teach memory techniques to help them better store and retrieve information from short-term memory.

Difficulty: Students take more time to learn new skills and information.

How to Improve: Students can learn new knowledge through repetition, rehearsal, and practice.

Difficulty: Kids may have trouble sustaining attention and focusing on the task at hand.

How to Improve: Direct the students' attention to the most important parts of the task.

Difficulty: Students often have trouble generalizing the information they learn in one setting to other contexts and situations.

How to Improve: Help children transfer skills they learn in one place to other settings.

Difficulty: People with this condition sometimes give up easily when the task becomes challenging, or they may not trust their responses or answers.

How to Improve: Teach self-determination skills so they can make decisions on their own.

Difficulty: These individuals often do not know how to take care of themselves to live independently.

How to Improve: Teach self-care skills, such as dressing, feeding, and bathing.

Difficulty: These people may have difficulty making and keeping friendships.

How to Improve: Teach interpersonal and social skills.

Difficulty: Students are more likely to exhibit aggression, self-injury, and poor self-control.

How to Improve: Teach self-management skills.