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Our Training Offer
Employers, health professionals, education professionals, and individuals with Tourette syndrome or their families can contact us by email at help@tourettes-action.org.uk for guidance and support, which we offer FREE OF CHARGE.
We also have the following FREE eLearning options:
- Three eLearning modules are accessible on our website, Understanding Tourette syndrome, in both English and Welsh, and Understanding Tourette syndrome for GPs: Tourettes Action eLearning Module
- Understanding Tourette syndrome - available on the NHS Learning Hub, open to individuals with a .gov or nhs email address
- Understanding Tourette syndrome for GPs - available on the NHS Learning Hub, open to individuals with a .gov or nhs email address
Bespoke Training Sessions
This training offer comes from 'real life' experience, our trainers either having Tourette's themselves or have a child with TS, meaning they can give strategies that actually work in practice and are not strategies that are thought to work.
We currently have 4 trainers, all offering professional content but also personal experience of the condition:
- Ione Georgakis who is an adult with TS and also a trained OT
- Lucy Toghill who is a mum of a child with TS and a qualified teacher
- Kat Congreave who is an adult with TS, a mum and a qualified therapist and university lecturer
- Suzanne Parsons who is a mum of two children with TS and also a qualified therapist
Our Training Offer
Our bespoke training sessions are priced from £200 per session and are delivered online. For more in depth information on what each session offers, please click the links below:
Workplace Training: Supporting Neurodiversity – Tourette syndrome Awareness
Business Awareness Session: Understanding Tourette syndrome
Lunch and Learn Session: Understanding Tourette syndrome
Parent/Carer Webinars: Supporting Young People with Tics and Tourette syndrome
Health and Social Care Training: Understanding and Supporting Individuals with Tics and Tourette syndrome
All our training sessions are targeted to the organisation’s individual needs
Examples of additional content can include:
- Reasonable adjustments specific to the person with Tourette’s
- Executive function strategies
- Targeted employee specific recommendations (discuss individual needs with the employee / employer and make targeted recommendations for adjustments or strategies to support wellbeing)
- Targeted education specific recommendations, discussing individuals on a case by case basis
