The documentary premiers Sept. 13, 2010 at 9 pm. Check your local cable provider for the Discovery Health Channel. “Tourette’s Uncovered” will also be replayed at 11:00 pm on September 13 and again on September 15 at 10:00 pm. You can check the TSA Facebook page for updates on future airings on Discovery Health and The Learning Channel (TLC) as well.

You can find more about the four children on TSA’s web site.

Remember that the companion blog is interactive. You can add your own tips to share with other parents or ask a question or discuss any of the topics covered on the site.

To get started, use the menu in the navigation bar at the top of each page. Articles on school-related impact of these disorders are found in the “School Issues” section of the site.

Additional resources have moved to another one of my sites — ChallengingKids.com. If you are looking for books for educators or parents, books for youth, videos, and other web sites on a particular topic, go to that site and pull down the “Resources” menu to find the topic of interest.

Thank you to the many organizations, professionals, and parents who have recommended this site in their books and newsletters.

If there’s something you are looking for that you cannot find, please let me know.

In 1992, after realizing that most of the children I was working with did not have just Tourette’s Syndrome, but also had other disorders such as ADHD or OCD, I coined the term “TS+” to remind parents and educators that many children with Tourette’s Syndrome have features of other disorders that we need to screen for, treat, and/or accommodate. “TS+” is my way of reminding ourselves that not every neurological symptom is due to Tourette’s Syndrome and that we may mislead our children’s teachers if we lump everything under Tourette’s by saying, “That’s part of his/her TS.”

“TS+” is not a diagnosis. It is just a short-hand way of communicating that a child, teen, or adult has more than “just TS.” Over the years, this site expanded to include coverage of the other disorders commonly observed in conjunction with TS. Learning what disorders emerge at what ages and what to “be on the lookout for” can help parents, teachers, and clinicians recognize when symptoms of another disorder may be emerging.

If you need help preparing for a 504 or an IEP meeting, this guide with reproducible checklists may be just what you need.  In it, you will find checklists of accommodation strategies for tics, obsessions and compulsions, medication side effects, mood disorders, homework hassles, handwriting issues, etc.   Bring a copy to any team meeting so that the team can look at all of the ideas for each challenge and determine which ones to try for your child.

For years, site visitors have urged me to compile a lot of practical information for parents and teachers in a book. Well, I have, and you can now buy an accommodation planning guide, Find a Way or Make a Way, or a more comprehensive guide to the neurological disorders discussed on this site, Challenging Kids, Challlenged Teachers. Challenging Kids, Challenged Teachers, co-authored by Sheryl K. Pruitt, M.Ed., ET/P.