Merchandise

Not just ticked off from TSA Victoria

Not Just Ticked Off provides information about the management of TS at both home and school. The information is exemplified by personal anecedotes of sufferers, caregivers, parents, grandparents and teachers. It is hoped that the issues explored in Not Just Ticked Off will lead to thoughtful discussion and further understanding of the syndrome, that greater insights will promote communication, open-mindedness and empathy, and that improved understandings about the syndrome will lead to healthy life and relationships and more effective educational experiences.

TSA Victoria's newest book Not Just Ticked Off. It is available for purchase from the Association the cost is $15.00 including P&H within Australia only. Overseas orders please email the association for more information regarding postage costs. The book has been very well received and is a wonderful source of information and strategies for managing TS in the classroom situation.

TSA Victoria's interactive CD-ROM "NO WAY, WHICH WAY?"

This CD has been produced as a result of two linked research studies about education for students with Tourette syndrome. The CD-ROM is designed for educators and parents seeking current information about the impact TS can have on learning. The CD offers classroom and teaching strategies and considers a range of ways to improve communication and home-school relationships essential for managing and planning learning with TS. The CD features video footage and real stories from those affected, providing a deeper understanding of the feelings and experiences of young people living and learning with TS. Cost is $15 including P&H. Contact the office for more details

Tic Attack Book

This is a 28 page book about TS designed for children and adolescents and those who are young at heart. The contributions are mainly by kids who have TS. These courageous kids share their experiences with others, with the hope that their understanding can assist fellow sufferers. The helpful comments are printed just as they wrote it, in their own style and with their own spelling. Cost is $7 (Australia only - for international costs, please contact us).

Here are some extracts from the text:

• 'I feel as if TS is a monster who lives inside me who makes my body do things that I don't want it to.'
  
• 'It was weird at first with everyone looking at my movements but it doesn't bother me much now.'
  
• 'I blink unwillingly like a confused owl all of the time. Clenching my fists and toes, I feel like a tree climbing chimpanzee. Other times, I have to stretch open my eyes as wide as possible, like a possum on a nocturnal fruit stealing expedition.'

Dr Gilles de la Tourette

Dr Gilles de la Tourette (1857 - 1904) was a neurologist living in France and was the first to diagnose and describe TS. He made several valuable contributions to medicine and literature. He was a dynamic, passionately outspoken man whose prodigious literary output reflected his own restless compulsions. Gilles gave a description of the Marquis de la Dampierre, a noble woman whose symptoms included coprolalia (the utterance of swear words). Gilles was shot by a deluded woman who was a patient at the famous Salpêtrière hospital.