Coping with Tourette Syndrome in the classroom - A reading specialist discusses the role teachers play in helping students with TS deal with their disorder and overcome the symptoms in the classroom. Subjects are broken down and lesson ideas and projects are provided within each heading. There are over 1700 education links provided. It provides helpful and insightful tips for parents and educators on how to cope with a child with these conditions and how to help the child cope as well. It gives information about TS from a parents perspective along with a detailed account of one family's struggle with it.
Information is provided in a story-like manner and easy to understand.
A Mother's Coping Guide - This web site was created by a mom of a child with TS to help other parents. The increased anxiety associated with not being in control of their own bodies may exacerbate the tics leading to outward or inward aggression, feelings of inadequacy and frustration, despair, and severe depression. Therefore, information on TS should be provided to all personnel involved in the child's education. These children are not intentionally doing things to annoy other people. That is something people really need to understand.