.Books/DVD's Available For Loan
Over time I will be adding more books to this list - so keep checking back!!!
These books are just not to do with Tourette Syndrome, but also is in relation to those who may have ADHD, OCD and so on.
Front of the Class - How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I never Had.
By Brad Cohen and Lisa Wysocky
Highly Recommend.
Highly Recommend.
As a child with Tourette's, Brad was ridiculed, beaten mocked, and shunned. This story of unwavering determination proves anyone can make their dreams come true. Ends with 20+ motivational tips on living with a disability.
I Can't Stop! A Story About Tourette Syndrome
By Holly L Niner, Meryl treatner (Illustrator)
One day Nathan starts blinking--a lot. It bothers his parents and his sister. After a while the blinking stops, but then Nathan starts sniffing. One of his classmates complains to the teacher. Then, after a swim meet, Nathan's head keeps moving back and forth. His mom is annoyed and asks him to stop. But the problem is, Nathan
Living with Tourette Syndrome
by Elaine Fantle Shimberg, Oliver W. Sacks (Foreword by), Elaine Shapiro, Ph.D. (Introduction by)
Providing comprehensive information on diagnosing, treating, and coping with Tourette's Syndrome, this supportive guide answers questions about obtaining a proper diagnosis, managing treatment, and living a full life. Shimberg gives advice on dealing with the symptoms, as well as its psychological and physical ramifications.
Tics and Tourette Syndrome
Uttom Chowdhury
This essential guide to tic disorders and Tourette Syndrome tackles problems faced both at home and at school, such as adjusting to the diagnosis, the effect on siblings and classroom difficulties. Dr Chowdhury offers advice on how to manage symptoms, describing psychological techniques such as habit reversal and massed practice and reviewing available medical treatments. In clear, accessible language, this book explains the clinical signs and symptoms of Tourette and related conditions, and their possible causes. Presenting practical strategies for dealing with associated difficulties, including low self-esteem, anger-management and bullying, this book will be invaluable to parents, teachers, social workers and other professionals.
Understanding ADHD
Dr Christopher Green and Dr Kit Chee
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
An Anthropologist On Mars
Oliver Sacks
Tics and Tourette Syndrome
Uttom Chowdhury
This essential guide to tic disorders and Tourette Syndrome tackles problems faced both at home and at school, such as adjusting to the diagnosis, the effect on siblings and classroom difficulties. Dr Chowdhury offers advice on how to manage symptoms, describing psychological techniques such as habit reversal and massed practice and reviewing available medical treatments. In clear, accessible language, this book explains the clinical signs and symptoms of Tourette and related conditions, and their possible causes. Presenting practical strategies for dealing with associated difficulties, including low self-esteem, anger-management and bullying, this book will be invaluable to parents, teachers, social workers and other professionals.
Understanding ADHD
Dr Christopher Green and Dr Kit Chee
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders: people afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations; patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
An Anthropologist On Mars
Oliver Sacks
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks has written, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers-- including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's Syndrome except when he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who has great difficulty deciphering the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior.
DVD's/Videos
I Have Tourettes But Tourettes Doesn't Have Me.
"I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me" is a candid look at the lives of real children and teens with TS. The 27-minute documentary has aired dozens of times on HBO and HBO Family channels since its debut in November 2005, and has also been available for viewing on "HBO on Demand." It is estimated that well over two million viewers have seen this touching and insightful program.
A Teacher looks at TS - Susan Conners
A teacher looks at Tourette Syndrome - VHS Format
Susan Conners has years of teaching experience, person insight and abundant humour. She introduces teachers to what it is like to have TS in the classroom, techniques to help students to learn best and for teachers to be most effective and informed. Aspects of OCD and ADHD and other related conditions. Includes a 30 minute and a 60 minute version.
If you would like to borrow any of these books/DVD's email Jackie at tsnz@xtra.co.nz
If the book is out you can email me and I can book it for you.
It is important that the books/DVD's are returned within the month as there is now a waiting list for the books/DVD's Thanks!!
At this stage the library is only available to New Zealand Residents only.
"I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me" is a candid look at the lives of real children and teens with TS. The 27-minute documentary has aired dozens of times on HBO and HBO Family channels since its debut in November 2005, and has also been available for viewing on "HBO on Demand." It is estimated that well over two million viewers have seen this touching and insightful program.
A Teacher looks at TS - Susan Conners
A teacher looks at Tourette Syndrome - VHS Format
Susan Conners has years of teaching experience, person insight and abundant humour. She introduces teachers to what it is like to have TS in the classroom, techniques to help students to learn best and for teachers to be most effective and informed. Aspects of OCD and ADHD and other related conditions. Includes a 30 minute and a 60 minute version.
If you would like to borrow any of these books/DVD's email Jackie at tsnz@xtra.co.nz
If the book is out you can email me and I can book it for you.
It is important that the books/DVD's are returned within the month as there is now a waiting list for the books/DVD's Thanks!!
At this stage the library is only available to New Zealand Residents only.