SEVERE MENTAL RETARDATION: CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENTS - BABY HEALTH
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Severe Mental Retardation: Features and Treatments



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Severe mental retardation is characterized by the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) between 20 and 35. In this case the person speaks almost nothing, and needs lifelong care being always dependent and incapable. She can not be enrolled in regular school because she can not learn, speak or understand to a degree that can be evaluated, always requiring specialized professional support so that she can develop and learn essential words such as calling her mother, asking for water or going to the bathroom, for example