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Tourette syndrome

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Chase, age 8



Books

Adam and the Magic Marble: A Magical Adventure
Adam and Carol Beurhens
Hope Press, Duarte, CA, 1991
A book that is written for children by a teenager with TS

A Mind of Its Own: Tourette’s Syndrome
Ruth Dowling Bruun
Oxford University Press, NY, 1994
A story and a guide

Children with Tourette Syndrome: A Parents’ Guide
Tracy Haerle (editor)
Woodbine House, Rockville, MD, 1992

A Cursing Brain?: The Histories of Tourette Syndrome
Howard I. Kushner
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999

Don't Think About Monkeys: Extraordinary Stories by People with Tourette Syndrome
AW Seligman, JS Hilkevich
Hope Press, Duarte, CA, 1992

The Explosive Child
Ross W. Greene
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., NY, 1998
The best book on children who are explosive and strategies for what to do that parents and teachers can understand

HI, I’m Adam: A Childs Story of Tourette Syndrome
Adam Beuhrens
Hope Press, Duarte, CA, 1990
A book that is written for children by a teenager with TS

Living With Tourette Syndrome
Elaine Fantle Shimberg.
Simon and Schuster, NY, 1995
First hand stories of what it is like to live with TS

Raising Joshua
Sheryl Shamer
Hope Press, Duarte, CA, 1997
A mother’s account of the challenges of parenting a child with TS

Teaching the Tiger: A Handbook for Individuals Involved in the Education of Students with Attention Deficit Disorders,Tourette Syndrome, or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Marilyn P.Dornbush and Sheryl K. Pruitt
Hope Press, Duarte, CA, 1995
This is particularly written for teachers and parents

Tourette’s Syndrome: Tics, Obsessions, Compulsions, Development Psychopathology and Clinical Care
James F. Leckman and Donald J. Cohen
John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999
This is a text book for professionals

Understanding Tourette Syndrome. A Handbook for Educators, 2nd Ed.
Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada, Toronto, CA, 2001.

 

SPECIAL EDUCATION

Negotiating the Special Education Maze: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
W Anderson, S Chitwood, D Hayden
Woodbine House, Rockville, MD, 1992

The Special Education Handbook
K. Shore
Teachers College Press, 1986

The Special Education Sourcebook
Michael S. Rosenberg and Irene Edmond-Rosenberg
Woodbine House, Rockville, MD, 1994.

You, Your Child, and “Special” Education
Cutler, Barbara Coyne-Baltimore, MD
Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co. 1998

Videos

A Regular Kid, That’s Me
A forty-five minute video for a teacher in-service presentation

Be My Friend
Tourette Syndrome Association of Minnesota
A short video for elementary school children

Bending The Rules: A Guide for Parents of Troubled Children
Michael McDonald Productions
A video on discipline

Handling It Like a Winner, The Jim Eisenreich Story
Tourette Syndrome Association
Kansas City Chapter
PO Box 291, Olathe, KS 66051-0291
Tourette Syndrome from the point of view of a professional baseball player

Stop It! I Can’t
Tourette Syndrome Association
A thirteen-minute documentary useful for a discussion or in-service for classmates