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CASE STUDIES
Jason
Jason is ten years
old. He appears to have normal ability and enjoys class and the company of
his peers. He does however, find it very hard to stay quiet for more than a
few minutes. He frequently interrupts the teacher by making strange noises
or gestures which the other children find amusing. His class teacher finds
this behaviour most annoying, has frequently rebuked him for this but to no
effect. She has recently begun to keep a notebook of his behaviour. One of
the targets she has set him in class is to be able to sit quiet and still
for at least 15 minutes each hour.
She feels that Jason’s behaviour
problems are sufficient to have him labelled as having emotional and
behavioural problems and therefore he may need statemented.
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tried to explain that his problems are due to Tourette’s Syndrome and that
Jason is not deliberately disrupting the class. She is concerned that he is
now coming home from school distressed and unhappy and is reluctant to go in
the morning and is trying to convince the school that all he needs is the
opportunity to have a few minute’s time out when he feels the compulsion to
have a ‘tic’. |
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