East Brunswick High School senior gives lesson in Tourette awareness to Spotswood High School

New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome Youth Advocate Amanda Silvers addressed the questions of 6 classes and nearly 140 people during a March 28 in-service presentation. SPOTSWOOD – When Amanda Silvers first contacted Spotswood Public Schools to gauge their interest in having the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome &

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Dr. Robert King of Yale University to deliver Tourette grand round April 11 at Monmouth Medical Center

LONG BRANCH – The New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) will host “Tourette Syndrome,” a grand rounds presentation featuring Dr. Robert King of the Yale University Tourette Syndrome & OCD Clinic, from 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday, April 11, at Monmouth Medical Center’s Borden Auditorium. The

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NJCTS, Ramapo College, TS community pumped up to walk on April 14

Now is a great time to join them and register for the NJ Walks For TS at Ramapo College, an awareness and fundraising event. MAHWAH – The New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) is ready. Students and volunteers from Ramapo College of New Jersey are ready.

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New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez reintroduces CARE for Tourette Syndrome Act to U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) is proud to announce that the Collaborative Academic Research Efforts (CARE) for Tourette Syndrome Act of 2013 has been reintroduced as bill S. 637 to the United States Senate by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ). The legislation,

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Wednesday Webinars: “Parenting” provides positive review of raising kids; “iSocialSkills” up next

Participants nationwide found Dr. Steven Tobias’ perspective on parenting very useful; the next New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome webinar is scheduled for April 24. Dr. Steven Tobias, Psy.D, the director of the Center for Child and Family Development in Morristown, N.J., discussed how mothers and fathers need to parent

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NJCTS and the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network to present session on bullying prevention strategies

DENVILLE – New Jersey has the strongest set of anti-bullying laws in the country. Learn what they are and how to apply them to bullying situations that may come up in your child’s life when the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) and the Statewide Parent

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Mother-and-son team have been taking care of local Tourette Syndrome support group for a decade

Lauren and Steven Lindenbaum, of Marlboro, have been the facilitators for the Middlesex/Union County Family Support Group, which meets bi-monthly at JFK Medical Center in Edison. MARLBORO – Volunteers are an invaluable resource to any organization. This is especially true for the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated

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New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome welcomes Marc Brummer and Tim Kowalski to Board of Directors

SOMERVILLE – The New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) is proud to announce the additions of Marc Brummer and Tim Kowalski, PhD, to the organization’s leadership as members of the Board of Directors. Brummer, of Livingston, and Kowalski, of Plainsboro, join Eliot Goldstein, Esq. (Warren); Tim

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Ramapo student organizations ready to show up en masse for April 14 walk

Most of the large Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and other campus groups are pledging to be at the event and support kids with TS. MAHWAH – With the NJ Walks for TS at Ramapo College less than a month away, various student organizations on campus are ramping up their preparations

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