This research was aimed at seeing the effectiveness of a methodology of psychological attention for children with light retardation. As a major principle we considered the necessity of making simultaneosly; from a psychological stand-point, with the child, the family and the teaching personnel that tends him at school. We chose a sample made up pf 53 Nicaraguan school children with light mental retardation, from two special schools of the Estelí Deparment, distributed into an experimental group and a control group with 27 and 26 children respectively. The results attained were analyzed both qualitative and quantitatively, supported by computerized statistical programs. These results showed that the methodology of psychological attention used in our research work turned out to be effective for the treatment of children with light mental retardation that made up the experimental group, which showed a decrease or attenuation of the symptomatology present in those school children. Similarly, favorable results were shown in their interpersonal relations and in their intellectual productivity.