Common eating difficulties of mentally challenged children with their associated problem.

Abstract

Disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual or group. Mental retardation is a condition characterized by subnormal intellectual ability and arrested or delayed devlopment. Eating problem is a major factor for their behavioural adjustment, to find out the present study aimed at the common eating difficulties of mentally challenged children between the age of 9-14 years boys and girls, a study conducted among the 60 mentally challenged children in CHETNA Sansthan of Lucknow city. The study revealed that the common eating difficulties of mentally challenged children with their associated problem.