Question

What are the symptoms of pediatric intellectual disability?

Answer

The symptoms of intellectual disability include several aspects:

  1. Inability to see or hear: By 6 months, children with intellectual disability may not notice when adults are speaking to them. They have poor attention to people and objects around them, with a dull gaze.
  2. Feeding difficulties: When feeding 6-8-month-old infants solid foods like rice or bread, they often experience nausea and vomiting again, have poor chewing ability, and frequently cough.
  3. Lack of laughter: Normal infants start to smile at 2 months and can laugh heartily by 4 months. In contrast, children with intellectual disability generally never smile or only laugh aimlessly.
  4. Delayed language development: By 1 year, children with intellectual disability may still not be able to make purposeful sounds, sometimes only crying aimlessly.