"Mental Retardation" Must be Given Opportunity

As many as 230 people with disabilities showing tremendous spirit at athletic Cup finals in Field BPOC KONI-East Java, Indonesia. They proved themselves capable of achievement in sport.

Indra who was 13 years old, winner of the race run 50 meters with visual impairments, completing the track in 11.85 seconds. Students YPAB Surabaya is led from the whistle sounded and managed to run straight without getting out of line. Despite the fact he was afraid, but he believes it and ran as fast as possible.

Kaspin 13-year-old, who was in the rear position, also show sincerity to arrive at the finish. Students who experience this total blindness came last with a time 16.03 seconds.

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Mental Retardation Child Win the International Swimming Champion

There was never imagined by his mother, that her son Reviera Novitasari 15 years old who suffer from mental retardation received a bronze medal 100-meter breaststroke swimming on the international swimming championships in Canberra Australia, 11-13 April 2008.

Beginning her mother confessed that she knew her son had mental retardation shortly after birth. The incident made her feel sad.

Goieha remember, since the face of her fourth child was born it has almost the same faces as the face of the Mongols. To ensure Reviera circumstances, a doctor at the hospital Manuela Jakarta advised to check their blood at the time was six months old.

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New Hope For People with "Mental Retardation"

One cause of mental retardation (Down syndrome) in children is a disorder neurotransmitter called norepinephrine. If this disorder can be corrected, big hope for mentally retarded children have intelligence like a normal child.

The theory is now being tested by Ahmad Salehi, scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. In his research he uses norepinephrine to reverse the learning ability in mice that have symptoms similar to mental retardation in humans, which has the increase in the number of chromosomes.

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Children of "Down Syndrome" Must Can Independent

Attention to Down syndrome children in Indonesia ten years back began to appear. One of them with the activities carried out by the Down Syndrome Association of Indonesia (ISDI).

In ISDI itself a Center of Hope was founded to educate the children down syndrome. According to the Chairman ISDI Aryanti Rosihan Yacub, support for children with special needs such as Down syndrome should continue to be encouraged, especially by the parents of children with Down syndrome.

"At the center ISDI children can be briefed to be more independent because of many things that must be learned in life," said Aryanti to the media on Sunday (24/1/2010), who met when she was accompanying her son on Golf Pondok Indah, Jakarta .

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New Theory of Cause "Down Syndrome"

Until now, experts do not know the exact cause of Down syndrome or mental retardation disorders. Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality on chromosome 21 where additional amounts of chromosomes.

There are 22 pairs of human chromosomes. In those affected by Down syndrome, chromosome to chromosome-21 there are additional or displacement chromosomes from other places so that the chromosome 21 plus the we know trisomy 21.

Due to the addition of chromosomes, there will be disorder in children. Usually the disorder of the nerves, bones, skin, heart and digestive function.

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Iodine Deficiency Causes Mental Retardation

Thousands of children will be threatened with impaired mental retardation or "idiot" due to lack of iodine salt. Iodine salt deficiency was found to also affect a child's mental retardation can result in a comment. Even the most, at this time in the community are still many outstanding salt contains no iodine, not the least of people who also buy salt without iodine in salt content.

Some experts said the lack of iodine salt is dangerous because it can give birth a generation that is not qualified and not productive. Salt iodine deficiency can lead to generation of idiots or mental retardation, short body, dumb, deaf or paralyzed.

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