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AAP Grand Rounds 7:8-9 (2002)
© 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics
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The prevalence of tics in special education (SpEd) students and in a matched control sample of students in regular classroom programs (RegEd) was determined in a large-scale, community-based epidemiological study at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY. Three RegEd subjects were randomly selected for every 1 SpEd subject. A total of 1,596 students (ages 8.517.5 yrs) drawn from the Rochester city school district and 9 surrounding Monroe County suburban public school districts were interviewed from November 1994 to March 1998. The disability classifications of SpEd students included learning disability (79%), speech impaired (14%), emotionally disturbed (5%), and other (2%). Interviews of 341 SpEd and 1,255 RegEd students were conducted by neuropsychological technicians trained to assess the presence and severity of tics, and to distinguish them from other movements and behaviors. To reduce the likelihood
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