Cole Jenkins

Mrs.DeBock
21 October 2016
English 4
Essential Question: How can we suppress Tourette Syndrome?
Working Thesis: Medication and individual therapy can control Tourette Syndrome.
Refined Thesis: Medication and individual therapy can control Tourette Syndrome.

Service Annotated Bibliography

"Follow the leader." Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication Nov. 2007: 4. Opposing Viewpoints in Context.
Web. 25 Oct. 2016

The first source discusses how Tourette Syndrome has affected so many people around the
world and why it is important to understand how we can help these people who were diagnosed
and how it can be treated. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes sudden and
involuntary tics. It is a very serious problem that people need to understand because Tourette
Syndrome can be a very difficult thing to live with and can cause many different types of stress
and even OCD. When people hear the name, they automatically think of vulgar words or
inappropriate actions, but that is the rarest form of tics you can get in the disability. For most
people, if you are diagnosed at a much younger age, the better the chance you have of growing
out of it.

Mercer, Matt, and Jane Bianchi. "Matt has Tourette syndrome." Choices/Current Health Apr. 2014: 20+. Opposing
Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.

In this source, the author, Matt Mercer, explains to us how he has lived his life with Tourette
Syndrome. In his early life, Matt Mercer, 42, was diagnosed at a very young age. When he
attended school his peers would make fun of and bully him all because of a disability that made
him different. Over the years, he began to realize that the older he got, the rarer his tics had
become. Years later, he began to study Tourette Syndrome and how it affects other peoples lives.

He now works with his partner, Jane Bianchi, to determine how they can help children and
young adults who are diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome function in life.

Rowh, Mark. "The truth about Tourette's: living with an often misunderstood condition." Current Health Teens, a
Weekly Reader publication Apr.-May 2012: 17+. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.

In our final source, It is told from the viewpoint of a child who had witnessed Tourette Syndrome
in its full state. A young girl was in class one day and out of nowhere she witnessed a young boy
collapse onto the floor with his entire body shaking. She could not understand until the boy was
able to calm down and finally explain to her what had just occurred. She was shocked and
immediately felt bad for the boy. She could not imagine the pain that the boy had gone through
in such a very short life and how he could ever overcome that disability. The young boy could
not understand why he had this disability, until he realized something. That just because you are
different, that doesnt mean that he cant do anything he wants to do.

These articles inform people how Tourette Syndrome is a very serious and very important
disability that we need to understand and how we can help those who are diagnosed with the
disability. Just because you were born different does not mean that you can not be successful.
There are many people that have Autism, ADHD, as well as Tourette Syndrome that live a
normal and productive life.