It's actually really common for kids to make repetitive movements and noises—and how you handle them matters.
Tourette Syndrome, which is diagnosed when someone under age 18 has had at least two motor tics and one vocal tic that lasted for more than a year . About 1 percent of people have Tourette Syndrome, says Dr. Doja.The how or why tics occur isn’t known, but it’s believed to be related to the connections from the deep parts of the brain to the front parts of the brain and those connections going back and forth, explains Doja.
Pearce mentions that tics are also infrequently associated with a group of symptoms related to something called pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus . She says in the case of this condition, the tics would come on after a childStress and anxiety can exacerbate tics in someone with a pre-existing tic disorder, but don’t cause them, says Doja.
One strategy that Pearce uses at this stage is to show parents how to take the “spotlight off tics”, as she describes it. The method involves teaching the kid to become more aware of when the urge to tic is coming on, using relaxation training and making changes to daily activities to reduce tics as well as finding a “competing response”—a different movement or
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