Question
What medications are available for treating children with intellectual disability?
Answer
The key to treating children with intellectual disability lies in early intervention, specialized training, and promoting brain development. This includes using visual, sensory, and tactile pathways to perform alternating strong and weak stimuli to open neural pathways, enhance response ability, and speed. Additionally, based on the child’s intellectual development status, a specialized training program should be formulated that includes activities, language, cognition, social interaction, and daily living skills to gradually promote the child’s overall development and improve intelligence levels. If the child also has physical movement disabilities, simultaneous physical rehabilitation training such as massage, acupuncture, or even surgical correction may be required. Medication treatment is also an important therapeutic approach and can include many brain cell-nourishing, neurocell metabolism-stabilizing, brain function-stabilizing, and intelligence-enhancing drugs. When treating intellectual disability, the following points should be noted: 1. Start treatment early, ideally before the age of 3, to confirm the diagnosis and implement systematic treatment; 2. The duration of treatment should be long, preferably until the child can attend school; 3. The intensity of training should be high; the higher the intensity, the better the effect. Through early training and treatment, mild cases can significantly improve intelligence levels and even recover to normal; moderate cases can reduce the severity of disability; severe cases can reduce or prevent severe disabilities.