ADHD/tourettes????

Question

My son who is almost 13 was diagnosed with verbal dyspraxia at age 3 and ADHD at age 7.

He has always had verbal outburst often using inapropriate language and swearing. When i asked him if he realised what he is saying and how nasty it can be he he said that "it just comes out"

Can anyone tell me if this is a common behaviour for kids with ADHD or Could he have a form of Tourettes Syndrome?

These outbust dont happen all the time but tend to get more frequent if he is stressed/upset

he is on concertal xl a slow realse form of rilatin. I am in uk and he is seen regularly by a nurse who specialises in ADHD

Answer 1

Wait it gets better. My husband used to do that, up until the point we had to take him to therapist.

My Husband has severe ADHD and is 23 years old. I wish I could say that it is something that he will eventually grow out of, but its not. He had to learn how to cope with it as well as "filtering" his words. Which is basically what is boiling down with your son. Rather than filtering his words out or "thinking" before he speaks, he just lets words spill out.

I would suggest taking him to see someone other than a nurse who specializes in ADHD, like perhaps a doctor who can assess your son's situation possibly a little a better than the nurse. **not to brow beat the nurses abilities as I am a nurse**

Answer 2

First lets discuss the differences between ADHD and Verbal dyspraxia...and tourettes
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
is a developmental and behavioral disorder that affects 3% to 5% of all school-age children. Are easily distracted by sights and sounds in their environment.
Are unable to concentrate for long periods of time on low stimulation tasks (homework vs. video games).
Are restless and impulsive.
Have a tendency to daydream.
Are slow to complete tasks

Tourette's disorder
is a neurological (brain) condition that usually begins in childhood. It causes a child to make sounds or words (vocal tics) and body movements (motor tics) that are beyond his or her control. Tourette's disorder (TD) is also known as Tourette's syndrome and Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. However, not all tics are TD. Your child may have tics and not develop TD
Dyspraxia is the generic term used to cover a heterogeneous range of disorders affecting the initiation, organisation and performance of action[1]. It is an immaturity of the way the brain processes information, resulting in messages not being fully transmitted to the body and is a learning difficulty that can be present from birth (developmental dyspraxia) or as a result of brain damage suffered from a stroke or other trauma (acquired dyspraxia).Developmental verbal dyspraxia is a type of ideational dyspraxia, causing linguistic or phonological impairment. Key problems include:

Difficulties controlling the speech organs.
Difficulties making speech sounds
Difficulty sequencing sounds
Within a word
Forming words into sentences
Difficulty controlling breathing and phonation.
Slow language development.
Difficulty with feeding
Now we know the differeneces. I do believe that verbal dyspraxia is stuttering. If you suspect tourettes, speak to your doctor. If your child has ADHD, and takes a medication for it, such as ritalin. Somestimes the side affect of stimulant meds., eg. ritialn can be tics/less often tourettes. Is your child on any medication? If he does have speech and lang. problems this is very frustrating to him. Please have your son see a board certified "pediatric Neurologist" you can go to web.md and search for a doctor. good luck

Answer 3

I would seek out a developmental pediatrician or a neurologist who specializes in ADHD and/or Tourette's. You might be jumping the gun....but it would probably be better to catch something in the early stages than letting it to be a chronic problem.

One piece of advice....don't draw too much attention to the outbursts if you think he can't control it. I know that may be hard but if he is having more outbursts when he feels stressed it would be beneficial to get to the bottom of the problem before getting upset with him.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I have ADHD and that's never happened to me, nor has it happened to my father, who also has ADHD, nor has my mother, a psychiatrist, ever heard of that being a symptom of ADHD.

I don't think it's related, and you should get it checked by a doctor.

Answer 5

yes the brain is moving too fast. he needs meds to slow it down.