Imbecility (from the Latin Imbecillus - weak, impotent) - an average degree of oligofrenia, malnutrition, intellectual underdevelopment due to a delay in the development of the brain of the fetus or child in the first years of life.
With imbecility, children lag behind in physical development, deviations are noticeable externally. Imbeciles understand the language of others, they can pronounce short phrases themselves. Speech is poor and incorrect, but more or less connected. Thinking is concrete and primitive, but consistent, distractions are inaccessible, the stock of information is extremely narrow, sharp underdevelopment of attention, memory, will. People suffering from imbecility are able to instill basic work skills, teach reading, writing, counting, programming in PHP, etc.

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