All the preventive measures given here should be adopted to avoid mental retardation.
CTET Solved Paper MCQ - UTET April 2015 Paper2
Duffers do not differ from normal children in both physical characteristics and level of social expectancy. They only differ in their mental capabilities.
Physical trauma during pregnancy may cause mental
retardation, blindness or deafness etc.
Modification in the curriculum is not required for educating mildly mentally retarded
Mental deficiency used to be divided into the following sub-classifications;
(i) Borderline deficiency → (IQ 70-80)
(ii) Moron → (IQ 50-69)
(iii) Imbecile → (IQ 20-49)
(iv) Idiot → (IQ below 20)
(i) Borderline deficiency → (IQ 70-80)
(ii) Moron → (IQ 50-69)
(iii) Imbecile → (IQ 20-49)
(iv) Idiot → (IQ below 20)
