NJCTS Wednesday Webinar series continues May 23 with presentation on understanding eating disorders

Webinar will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and will be presented by licensed psychologist Dr. Hue-Sun Ahn   Eating disorders are increasingly affecting women and men of all ages, socioeconomic status, race and background. The next New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) Wednesday Webinar, titled

Continue reading

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez introduces Tourette Syndrome legislation to U.S. Senate

Bill S. 2321 is companion legislation to H.R. 3760, which was introduced by Congressman Albio Sires in December   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) is proud to announce the introduction of federal legislation for Tourette Syndrome by U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

Continue reading

TOURETTE SYNDROME AWARENESS WEEK: Lectures at RVCC, Rutgers benefit future educators

As part of the first annual statewide Tourette Syndrome Awareness Week, April 23-29, the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome (NJCTS) presented lectures about TS and its associated disorders to college students who intend to be future educators on April 19 at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg and on

Continue reading

“Pirates! Band of Misfits” comes to New Jersey for May’s Sensory Friendly Films series

Theatres in Clifton, Elizabeth, Freehold, New Brunswick, Rockaway and Wayne will show the hit movie on May 5, for those with Tourette Syndrome and associated disorders   AMC Theatres and the Autism Society have teamed up to bring families affected by autism and other disorders, such as Tourette Syndrome, a special

Continue reading

TOURETTE SYNDROME AWARENESS WEEK: Rutgers graduate students learn about clinical side of TS

PISCATAWAY – First- and second-year students in Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) are in the midst of learning Child Psychopathology as a basic competency in a field they have already chosen, but who might want to specialize with kids who have Tourette Syndrome.   Various

Continue reading

TOURETTE SYNDROME AWARENESS WEEK: Scotch Plains students learn how to be advocates for TS

SCOTCH PLAINS – When Connie Dovi asked her fifth-grade class at Terrill Road School to come up with a service learning project, Josh Klapper didn’t have to think very long to decide what he wanted to do.   Klapper, 11, who has Tourette Syndrome, immediately told Dovi that he wanted

Continue reading

Noted TS author/educator Sue Conners to give keynote at Dare To Dream Student Leadership Conference

The first Dare to Dream Student Leadership Conference to target the community of New Jersey high school students living with neurological conditions such as Tourette Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome and other associated disorders is less than a month away! Hundreds of Garden State students are expected to descend upon

Continue reading