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Better-funded teacher training could save 'naughty' children from stigma: Tourette Syndrome advocates

Despairing child sitting with head on knees in the dark frame of a doorway, backlit by a room behind flooded with daylight

The Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia says children with Tourette Syndrome are often treated as if they are misbehaving, rather than with the necessary appreciation for their condition.


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By Tom Canetti

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The Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia says children with Tourette Syndrome are often treated as if they are misbehaving, rather than with the necessary appreciation for their condition.



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