Children with Tourette syndrome may have a language advantage

Children with Tourette syndrome often face difficulties in education and communication, but a new language advantage of these children has just been found to be arousing and curious about the medical world.

Previously, Tourette's syndrome was defined as a type of neurological disorder , which tends to work, speaks unconsciously according to repetitive mechanisms and currently has about 200,000 Americans in general with this syndrome. And children with Tourette syndrome are often a huge obstacle to schools.

However, a research group from Newcastle University and Georgetown University has announced that children with Tourette syndrome have a very good language advantage compared to normal children.

To reach this conclusion, the group conducted a trial and trial on a total of 27 children aged 8 to 16 years. Among them, 13 children were diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, and 14 were normal babies.

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This group of children is given tests on speech, repeat language, ability to combine words, phonology and especially to repeat difficult and specific words such as 'naichovabe'.

Experimental results show that the ability of children to recognize and repeat the correct word without tripping on Tourette syndrome is much higher than that of normal children. At the same time, the ability to record and read words with extremely difficult phonemes, morphology behind the tail like –ed ., children with Tourette syndrome do much better than normal children. Author Michael Ullman, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University, said in a statement.

'This is a great language ability found in children with Tourette syndrome'.

Dye it, Dye, says that this small study of her and her team will be an important premise for in-depth research on treatment, as well as restoring language instincts in both young subjects. above.

Huynh Dung ( According to UPI)