After Connor’s Tourette Syndrome Diagnosis and through most of the rest of elementary school we were blessed by teachers and students that accepted Connor’s diagnosis of TS. I sure don’t want to say that everyone put it aside and treated him as if he didn’t have TS. I simply wanted to say that almost everyone was respectful and understanding. Even most of the children simply adapted to this. This is a credit to these children and I also think a natural byproduct of children & schools being more accommodating over the years to all kinds of conditions that many students (and teachers) face and are present in the schools.
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For anyone else needing an accommodation plan, please learn from my mistakes. Take this stuff very seriously and constantly put yourself in your child’s and his/her teacher’s shoes. Do your best, but realize that these plans can be revisited at anytime so be diligent in continued evaluation of the effectiveness and/or consequences of the accommodations that are agreed to. If they don’t work anymore -- change ‘em!
The following This presentation gives some solid TS information, but also addresses some of the various “accommodation plans” and additional perspectives on how your child’s TS might best be addressed in these legal documents.
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