On 23, Nov. 2015 our volunteer from the project With Tourette Across Poland Agata Macoch delivered a lecture about Tourette Syndrom to the freshmen at the Silesian Medical University. 37 young students appeared in the lecture theatre. They had had many questions to the topic. Agata Macoch distributed advertising and information material among the students.
The Association offers support to persons with Tourette Syndrome and their families. We create opportunities for them to meet up and interact. Our objective is also to share the awareness about the nature of Tourette Syndrome and indicate the opportunities for therapy.
In order to meet these objectives, the Association has embarked on educational campaign based on spreading the information and publications about TS. The Association collaborates with the specialists and relevant authorities in the fields of education, health and science research.
Tourette Syndrome is an inherited, neurological condition, its key features are tics, involuntary and uncontrollable sounds and movements. The tics are usually of a mild nature, however in the more extreme condition they can manifest themselves in involuntary swearing or making obscene or otherwise unacceptable movements or gestures.
The disorder is named after Gilles de la Tourette, the French neurologist and neuropsychiatrist, , who in 1885, whilst working at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, described 9 cases of this condition.
The website design of the English version was realized within the project “With Tourette Across Poland – programme against social exclusion of people diagnosed with Tourette Syndrom” which is a part of the programme “ Citizens for Democracy” funded by the EEA Grants and Norway Grants.
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