How to Help Your Child With Tourette Syndrome

  Parenting is often extremely difficult. It can be even more so if your child receives a diagnosis you find difficult to understand, such as Tourette Syndrome. In this kind of situation, it’s normal to seek information and to try and understand what’s happening and how you can help. This clinical disorder gravitates around the presence of tics, defined as ‘movements or vocalizations that arise without warning, quickly, repeatedly, and without rhythm’ (APA, 2022). However, there are several diagnostic labels linked with tics. Here, we’re going to explore Tourette Syndrome. “It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to have Tourette…