Patient's question:
What do mentally retarded children look like?Doctor's answer:
Children with congenital intellectual disabilities exhibit abnormal facial and physical features. They appear listless and expressionless, while normal children can focus on their surroundings at one month old. Children with intellectual disabilities show no interest in people or objects around them. For example, children with Down syndrome often have wide-set eyes, crossed eyes, a flat nose bridge, a tongue that frequently sticks out of their mouth, and drooling, which is commonly referred to as the "international face." Children with hydrocephalus have unusually large head circumferences, while microcephalic children have abnormally small heads.