of course not.

Although some autistic children scored below 7 in different degrees in IQ tests, according to their scores, they do have different degrees of mental retardation. However, it is worth noting that for autistic children with social barriers, intelligence tests often cannot accurately reflect their intelligence level.

When giving intelligence tests to autistic children, their cooperation degree is very important, and children's cooperation degree is related to their social barriers, which means that it is more likely to affect their intelligence test scores than their age.

There was an autistic child who didn't cooperate at all in the first intelligence test and scored 48 points. After more than a year of social and related training, the child cooperated in the test again and scored 145 points, which belongs to the intelligence level of gifted children.

Therefore, autistic children with serious social barriers have low intelligence test scores, which does not mean that children have mental retardation. Instead, we should take our children to do scientific rehabilitation treatment in time to prevent social barriers from getting worse and affecting their intellectual development.

Because most people don't know and understand autism, there is a great misunderstanding that autism is just like a fool, but autism and mental retardation (a fool) are not the same thing, and they are not equal. They are essentially different. Let's briefly talk about the differences.

Recently, I participated in some public welfare activities for autism, and got in touch with some opinions of ordinary people about autism and listened to their understanding. I found that the problem was quite big, and many people had little knowledge about autism, and even began to misinterpret it.

For example, passerby A: Autism is a mental illness, which is caused by depression.

Passerby B: Autism is mental retardation.

passer-by c: Autism means that you can't talk and have mental retardation. ......

I estimate that in the eyes of 7% of ordinary people, the differences between autism, autism and mental retardation are stupid and unclear. The difference between autism and autism I mentioned this issue in a previous video. If you are interested, you can read the previous article. Today, let's talk about the difference between autism and mental retardation.

The difference between autism and mental retardation

Autism and mental retardation are both diseases caused by brain problems. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder (it has been reported for more than 6 years in the world, and it has been reported for the first time in China for more than 2 years). So far, the pathogenesis is still unclear and the prognosis is poor, which is the object of great concern and research by the medical and educational departments all over the world. Mental retardation is mostly caused by genetic problems or brain damage caused by brain hypoxia, which has long been concerned by people. Therefore, the research on the education and rehabilitation of people with mental retardation has been relatively mature and systematic.

1. Definition and characteristics of childhood autism

(1) Childhood autism is a developmental disorder involving perception, emotion, language, thinking, action and behavior in early childhood, and it is also the most common and typical one among the extensive developmental disorders.

(2) Autism in children is a typical type of generalized developmental disorder, which is more common in boys. It starts in infancy (usually within 3 years old), mainly due to different degrees of interpersonal communication barriers, narrow interests and rigid behavior patterns.

(3) Characteristics and manifestations of children's autism:

(1) Social communication barriers are obvious, and emotional connection cannot be established.

(2) It is difficult to express and understand the language, and lacks communication and communication functions.

(3) Interest and activities are limited, rigid and repetitive.

(4) The onset is in early childhood (within 3 months or 3 years old), and most of them are accompanied by mental retardation (about 7%).

(5) The mental age is obviously lower than that of children of the same age.

(6) Autistic children are extremely sensitive to the environment.

(7) Adult children are often accompanied by epilepsy

Autistic children are usually comely, and some of them seem very smart. Parents often regard such a child as the apple of their eye, but they are indifferent and don't understand their parents' love at all. About half of them can't speak, or speak strangely and have narrow interests. When parents find their children different, they often feel very confused, confused, helpless, anxious and lost.

Atypical autism refers to a subtype of generalized developmental disorder, with atypical symptoms (which can only partially meet the criteria of autism symptoms) or atypical onset age (such as symptoms after 3 years old), so this diagnosis can be considered. Atypical autism can occur in children with nearly normal intellectual development or severe mental retardation, especially in boys.

second, the concept and characteristics of mental retardation

(a) mental retardation is also called mental retardation, mental retardation, mental retardation or mental retardation, and so on. In 1992, the American Association for the Mentally Handicapped (AAMR) defined mental retardation as: the existing ability level is substantially limited, which is characterized by: the intelligence level is significantly lower than the average intelligence development level, and at the same time, it has two or more restrictions in the following adaptive skill fields: communication, self-care, home life, social skills, community use, self-guidance, health and safety, functional subject ability, leisure and entertainment, and work. Its illness is during development (before the age of 18).

this concept includes three criteria.

first, the intelligence of the mentally disabled must be significantly lower than the average level of normal people. Is that his intelligence quotient (IQ) is below 7.

second: at the same time, he also showed obvious adaptive behavior disorder in his daily social life.

third: the obstacle occurs before the age of 18.

The definition of mental retardation in China is that people's intelligence is obviously lower than that of ordinary people, and they show obstacles to adaptive behavior. Including mental retardation or mental retardation caused by various harmful factors during intellectual development; After the intellectual development is mature, the intellectual damage caused by various harmful factors or the intellectual decline in old age is obvious.

(2) Characteristics of mental retardation

1. The perception speed is slow, the scope is narrow, the content is general and inaccurate, and the whole perception is obviously slower than that of normal children.

2. There will be a lot of distortions and errors in memory reproduction, with poor memory speed and poor memory representation

3. Speech appears late, develops slowly, has a small vocabulary and lacks coherence

4. Poor thinking judgment and lack of abstract thinking ability, making it difficult to grasp the concept of numbers.

5. inattention and poor stability.

What's the difference between children with autism and children with mental retardation

Children with autism usually show symptoms when they are two to three years old, such as difficulty in language communication, liking to be alone, not making eye contact with others, etc. Many parents usually think that their children are deaf or "mentally retarded" and lock them up at home or send them to relatives' homes in rural areas for raising, resulting in lifelong suffering of autistic children.

Autistic children and mentally retarded children are similar in some aspects, such as speech communication barriers with others, speech comprehension barriers, learning barriers, etc., but there are still great differences between them.

Although autistic children are accompanied by comprehensive developmental retardation, their development in all aspects is not balanced. For example, some autistic children can't even take care of themselves, but they have strong computing skills or painting and music skills. Some children have almost no language skills, but they are outstanding in memory, color recognition and shape recognition.

Children with mental retardation usually develop more slowly than normal people in all aspects, but they develop in a balanced way, and their development in perception, social communication, interest and language is directly proportional to their IQ.

The intellectual development of some autistic children is slower, but their main problem is that they are unwilling to learn because of their rejection, unlike children with mental retardation who are willing to learn but can't. Moreover, autistic children are extremely weak in sociality, and their social ability and initiative are far lower than those of mentally retarded children.

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Providing rehabilitation training for 1,5 autistic children

Providing psychological counseling and training for 3, parents

You're not a fool, right? My brother and I used to be like this. People said that we were fools, but it was more a psychological problem. When we were young, our poor brothers and sisters were in poor health. I always go to the hospital clinic every day when I have nothing to do, and my father is the kind of person who is timid and doesn't like to suffer hardships and can't earn a lot of money. My mother is competitive. In my memory, when I was a child, they often fought and quarreled. Every day in this environment, the whole person becomes closed and doesn't like to talk, because parents' anger will always be blamed on you, and they hate that you are sick every day and that. So in the past, it really caused a serious psychological shadow to us. Until now, when I grow up, I don't want to ask people for anything when I see my relatives. It's not that I won't, but I feel very strange that only those who are familiar with me can let go. Although my life is better now and I don't quarrel as often as before, I don't mean that I can change my personality. Some inferiority complex is always lingering. Therefore, when you set up a family and have the next generation, you will pay special attention to this influence, don't pass on your childhood misfortune to your children, and don't let bad emotions affect your life. < P > Autism is generally divided into low-functioning autism and high-functioning autism. Low-functioning autism may have mental retardation. However, most of the low-functioning autism only develops at a slower stage than normal children, and there is no better category. And if it is high-functioning autism, it may be what we say as a "genius." Not only do they have no mental retardation, but they may surpass ordinary people in some aspects, such as drawing and calculating. The main characteristics of autism are social communication problems, rigid behavior, self-talk and so on. The mental retardation is that the intelligence level is lower than the normal level.

Autism can't be equated with fools. Some autistic people have superhuman talent in a certain respect. I remember watching a documentary. A young man in Britain was autistic since childhood, but he was absolutely talented in painting, mainly because he painted exactly what he had seen, and the proportion was completely correct.