1. When teaching and training children with mental retardation, we should do everything possible to attract children's attention, stimulate their curiosity, cultivate their interest and mobilize their various senses to participate in the training.
2. Personal training, group training or collective training should be arranged during training. The design of training form and the determination of training content should be considered from the individual needs of trainees.
3. The decomposition steps of the training program should be fine and slow, which is easy for mentally retarded children to accept. Trainers should pay attention to the principle that each step is a small step and repeated cycles, so that mentally retarded children can master skills in repeated practice.
The most commonly used method in training is job analysis. That is, analyze a target task into several steps and train to complete the target in sequence. Generally, it is done in two forms: sequential method or reverse method.
Sequential method is also called forward chain method. According to the steps of the work, start training from the first step, and then train the second step after the first step is completed until the last step.
The reverse order method, also called the reverse chain method, starts from the last step according to the working steps, and then teaches the previous step backwards until the first step.
4. If a mentally retarded child encounters serious obstacles, the training takes a lot of time and the effect is not good, but the trainer should not worry, but should actively find ways to help him adopt auxiliary tools or improve the training environment to achieve the same effect.