Mental Retardation: Early Identification and Prevention

Abstract

Mental retardation is a serious intellectual disability. The diagnosis of Mental retardation in a child can trigger a range of emotional responses in parents & across the whole family. Parenting a child with a Mental retardation is a very difficult task as lot of stress, frustration, and hopelessness is experienced by them. The need of the study is to determine the early identification steps and preventive techniques of the mental retardation so that immediate steps would be taken by the parents to prevent and control the disability.