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Mental Retardation : Complications

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Complications List

Complications could include:
  • Social Isolation
  • Impaired Self-Care
  • Inability to Interact Appropriately with Others

Complications Overview Articles

Mental retardation
Complications vary. They may include:Inability to care for selfInability to interact with others appropriatelySocial isolation.
Source:ADAM
Date:November 12, 2007
Mental Retardation
Below-average intellectual abilities that are present before the age of 18 and interfere with developmental processes and with the ability to function normally in daily life(adaptive behavior).The term mental retardation is commonly used to refer ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Mental Retardation
People with mild to moderate mental retardation are frequently able to achieve some self-sufficiency and to lead happy and fulfilling lives. To reach these goals, they need appropriate and consistent educational, community, social, family, and voc...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Mental Retardation
Individuals with mild to moderate mental retardation are frequently able to achieve some self-sufficiency and to lead happy and fulfilling lives. To reach these goals, they need appropriate and consistent educational, community, social, family, an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Mental retardation
People with mild to moderate mental retardation are frequently able to achieve some self-sufficiency and to lead happy and fulfilling lives. To reach these goals, they need appropriate and consistent educational, community, social, family, and voc...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Mental Retardation
Individuals with mild to moderate mental retardation are frequently able to achieve some self-sufficiency and to lead happy and fulfilling lives. To reach these goals, they need appropriate and consistent educational, community, social, family, an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health

Specific Complications Articles

Self-Care Behavior
Self-care behavior, a key concept in health promotion, refers to decisions and actions that an individual can take to cope with a health problem or to improve his or her health. Examples of self-care behaviors include seeking information(e.g., rea...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Communication Skills and Disorders
The skills needed to use language(spoken, written, signed, or otherwise communicated) to interact with others, and problems related to the development of these skills.Experts in child development generally agree that all babies develop skills for ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Communication skills and disorders
Communication skills are the skills needed to use language(spoken, written, signed, or otherwise communicated) to interact with others, and communication disorders are problems related to the development of these skills.Language employs symbols...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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