Children with

special needs

Children's low /mental Retardation /Mentally

By:
Disabled
Ianatusyarifah
Innieq Yassa Nimara
Fian Linggra P

preliminary
Mentally disabled (mentally retarded) are real children who
are experiencing barriers to intellectual and mental
developmental delays well below average so that experience
difficulties in academic tasks, and social communication, and
therefore require special education services
Mentally disabled generally refers to intellectual functioning
is significantly below the normal average. Along with that, the
mentally disabled, deprived of their behavior and adjustment.
All it takes place or occurs during development. thus, if the
person is mentally disabled has three factors, namely:
1. Of delay functions in general intelligence or below average
2. The inability of the adaptive behavior
3. Occurs during development until the age of 18 years

Slow learning children has feature, such as:

1. The average primary study low
2. Need more time to finish their task than
their friends in the same age
3. Slow in absorbing their study

Classification of Childrens Low IQ

To know someone intelligence level,

generally can be measured by
through intelligence test which result
usually named IQ (intelligence
Quotient) which can be divided to:
1. Mild Mental Retardation { IQ 5570 }
2. Moderate Mental Retardation { IQ
40-55 }
3. Sever Mental Retardation
{ IQ
25-40 }
4. Profound Mental Retardation { IQ

Classification of Childrens Low IQ

Indonesian specialist use different Classification. It
can be seen in the table below:

Matur
IQ
Cla
ity
Qua
ss
Intell
ntity
ectual
1

5070

3050

Explanation

They just learn subject

Age 5matter for children in
10
age 5 until 10 years old
They just learn subject
Age 3matter for children in
5
age 3 until 5 years old
They just learn subject
Age 0-

Physical Characteristic Childrens Low IQ

Children with mentally disabled can be recognized
by their physical character, such as:
1. Physical appearance are not balanced, example
their head is too small or too big.
2. Cannot take care their self appropriate to their
age
3. Has thick eyelid, make their eyes looks slanting
4. Their speaking and language skill are
obstructed
5. Careless to their surrounding (blank eyewitness)
6. Low movement coordination
7. Often to slobber (their mouth expel saliva)

Difficulty that faced by Childrens Low IQ

1. Children with obstructed mental development doesnt
mean they obstructed in other development. Children
with mentally disabled has weakness in counting,
language skill, difficult to remember, controlling their
surroundings and others generally difficulties. Their
physical development is not obstructed
2. Mental Retardation sufferer will not reach their maturity
intelligence the same as normal children. Their maturity
intelligence can be reached depend on their retardation
degree.
3. In their connection with others, mental retardation
sufferer most of times become naughtiness target of
normal children or older children.

Implication in Education

In reading skill, motoric skill, and others

skill learning is the same as children in
common.
a. The difference of Childrens Low IQ is
their skill in learning characteristic
b. Characteristic difference exist in 3
area, namely:
1. Skilled level
2. Generalization and transfer skill
that just they obtain
3. Attention about carry out a task

Special Learning Treatment

1. Need more time than normal

children.
2. Need teacher patient and
persevering in giving explanation
3. More practice than memorize and
understanding
4. The teacher must use many
learning variation
5. More remedial activity