The child from humanitarian grounds is first and foremost human
because of his personality and characteristics of his own make him different
from other in his abilities and aspects of strength and weakness and in this
case he needs from us all the care and attention as one of the special needs.
Children with Tourette syndrome are not of those who suffer from
mental or physical disabilities, they are normal children but they face some
motor and phonic disorders appeared in involuntary motor and vocal (Tics)
that characterized by sudden, repetitive, stereotyped, non-rhythmic,
purposeless, exchangeable tics that occur in many parts of the body that may
hide them from showing their abilities and that as a result of the presence of
disorder in one of centers of the brain that responsible for organization of
movement and its harmonization , although a number of them have average
intelligence and up to high intelligence , however there are some difficulties
facing those children as a result of the syndrome that affect their learning in
various fields (motor – language - social – emotional - cognitive) , so we must
study and understand the nature of this category and that can be achieved only
in the light of the criteria of the diagnosis recognized by the (DSM- IV- TR-
2000) for accurate and in –depth diagnosis for those children through
observing them and collecting data that contribute in early detection and find
border distinguishing between them and the many disorders which my
resemble them in a range of symptoms and differ in some , and that through
what is preparing of tests and measurements help in the detection of
differences in each of these categories (Tourette syndrome –Learning
disabilities) ,in order to draw a diagnostic picture for such these categories
and then set up an appropriate counseling and treatment services for them and
to provide effective programs.
