Tourette's Syndrome Case Study
Tourette's disorder. (2005). Harvard Mental Health Letter, 21(12), 4-5. This article tells of the history of Tourette syndrome and defines what Tourette syndrome is. It informs the reader the several common motor and vocal tics. These tics includes sniffing, throat clearing, rapid eye blinking, twitching of mouth and nose, and in some cases performing obscene gestures or words. This disorder is often diagnosed in children and adolescence, with the first symptom at about six years old. According to the article, mild Tourette’s are often not accompanied with other disorders. Children with Tourette’s syndrome have a smaller caudate nucleus, a part of the basal ganglia, which controls the body movements. The article also mentions the several treatments that may suppress the tics or treat Tourette’s itself. These treatments include taking antipsychotic or antianxiety medication, botulinum toxin, and habit reversal, a method that requires you to contract muscles that opposes the tics. This article is useful and consistent with the several articles that I have read. This article informs the readers the several treatments and the side effects of the
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treatment that children with Tourette’s syndrome may take. The information in this article helped me realize that there are available treatments for Tourette’s syndrome children, and it gives me hope that children with Tourette’s can be helped in some way or another. Knowing more about this disorder allows me to sympathize with the children with Tourette’s and to be prepared if I ever encounter children with this syndrome in my field.
Christner, B., & Dieker, L. A. (2008). Tourette Syndrome: A Collaborative Approach Focused on Empowering Students, Families and Teachers. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 40(5), 44-51. This article briefly defines Tourette’s syndrome, a syndrome often discovered by the ages 6 or 7, as a neurobiological disorder that is associated with tics, involuntary motor and vocal sounds and movements. This syndrome is associated with other disorders or disabilities; thus, causing Tourette’s syndrome to be difficult to be diagnosed. The author also indicates that some interventions and instructional aid children with Tourette’s. Some of the interventions and instructional include testing the child in a separate location that is free from distractions and establishing a private place for tics to be released. The author mentions that the family should be involved in the children’s education will aid in the child’s self-awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and also the knowledge of their disability.
This article was helpful as it not only explains what Tourette’s syndrome is, but also informs the audience of the many ways to aid children with this disability.
The article helps me understand more about Tourette’s syndrome. It helps me identify the several methods that may help a child to overcome his or her fear about Tourette’s syndrome. This article also aids in informing the general public about this disorder, and further educate the parents and teachers who have or are teaching children with Tourette’s syndrome. This article is also helpful to children with Tourette’s syndrome as it creates self-awareness of their disability. Although it was written in the perspective of a teacher, this article conveyed the positive outlooks of this disorder. The article does not mention the setbacks of Tourette’s
syndrome.
Tural Hesapcioglu, S., Bilginer, C., & Kandil, S. (2014). A Different Symptom Associated with Tics in Tourette's Syndrome: Vomiting. Dusunen Adam: Journal of Psychiatry & Neurological Sciences, 27(1), 69-73. According to this article, another symptom for Tourette’s syndrome includes vomiting. This article presents a case on a girl who was vomiting by swallowing and contracting her abdominal muscles. Apart from this extraordinary and uncommon symptom of tics, she also had an obsession with contagion. Although with treatment and medication, this patient was unable to treat the symptoms of her tics. Her vomiting symptom was a disruptive behavior that affected her day-to-day life. She suffered relationships with her friends and mother, and also risked having eating disorders due to her unusual tics. This article presents that clinicians who diagnose Tourette’s syndrome must be aware that other tics like vomiting. Although the Tourette’s syndrome was discovered at least a hundred years ago, much is needed to be discovered. The article reminds scientist, clinicians, and psychologists that Tourette’s syndrome is a syndrome that needs more exploration. Due to the difference in genetic makeup in humans, the symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome cannot be clearly defined. This article, therefore, assures me that no matter how much I know about a topic, more is needed to be explored. It also reminds me to stay humble, and to learn not to diagnose a disorder if some of the symptoms fit the disorder.
treatment that children with Tourette’s syndrome may take. The information in this article helped me realize that there are available treatments for Tourette’s syndrome children, and it gives me hope that children with Tourette’s can be helped in some way or another. Knowing more about this disorder allows me to sympathize with the children with Tourette’s and to be prepared if I ever encounter children with this syndrome in my field.
Christner, B., & Dieker, L. A. (2008). Tourette Syndrome: A Collaborative Approach Focused on Empowering Students, Families and Teachers. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 40(5), 44-51. This article briefly defines Tourette’s syndrome, a syndrome often discovered by the ages 6 or 7, as a neurobiological disorder that is associated with tics, involuntary motor and vocal sounds and movements. This syndrome is associated with other disorders or disabilities; thus, causing Tourette’s syndrome to be difficult to be diagnosed. The author also indicates that some interventions and instructional aid children with Tourette’s. Some of the interventions and instructional include testing the child in a separate location that is free from distractions and establishing a private place for tics to be released. The author mentions that the family should be involved in the children’s education will aid in the child’s self-awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and also the knowledge of their disability.
This article was helpful as it not only explains what Tourette’s syndrome is, but also informs the audience of the many ways to aid children with this disability.
The article helps me understand more about Tourette’s syndrome. It helps me identify the several methods that may help a child to overcome his or her fear about Tourette’s syndrome. This article also aids in informing the general public about this disorder, and further educate the parents and teachers who have or are teaching children with Tourette’s syndrome. This article is also helpful to children with Tourette’s syndrome as it creates self-awareness of their disability. Although it was written in the perspective of a teacher, this article conveyed the positive outlooks of this disorder. The article does not mention the setbacks of Tourette’s
syndrome.
Tural Hesapcioglu, S., Bilginer, C., & Kandil, S. (2014). A Different Symptom Associated with Tics in Tourette's Syndrome: Vomiting. Dusunen Adam: Journal of Psychiatry & Neurological Sciences, 27(1), 69-73. According to this article, another symptom for Tourette’s syndrome includes vomiting. This article presents a case on a girl who was vomiting by swallowing and contracting her abdominal muscles. Apart from this extraordinary and uncommon symptom of tics, she also had an obsession with contagion. Although with treatment and medication, this patient was unable to treat the symptoms of her tics. Her vomiting symptom was a disruptive behavior that affected her day-to-day life. She suffered relationships with her friends and mother, and also risked having eating disorders due to her unusual tics. This article presents that clinicians who diagnose Tourette’s syndrome must be aware that other tics like vomiting. Although the Tourette’s syndrome was discovered at least a hundred years ago, much is needed to be discovered. The article reminds scientist, clinicians, and psychologists that Tourette’s syndrome is a syndrome that needs more exploration. Due to the difference in genetic makeup in humans, the symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome cannot be clearly defined. This article, therefore, assures me that no matter how much I know about a topic, more is needed to be explored. It also reminds me to stay humble, and to learn not to diagnose a disorder if some of the symptoms fit the disorder.