Tourette Syndrome A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents and Carers

Description

This accessible handbook written by Amber Carroll (adviser for Personal Social and Health Education) and Mary Robertson  (Professor of Neuropsychiatry), provides the knowledge and information required to equip teachers and learning support assistants with the understanding and skills needed when working with pupils with Tourette Syndrome.

The authors :

• discuss clinical descriptions and medical treatment
• advise on diagnosis
• provide manageable multi-disciplinary strategies for application within a school
• respond to learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties pupils may experience and the implications for staff and others.