Liam Clegg loves football and lacrosse. His athletic ability and love for sports has helped him manage his tics and Tourette’s syndrome, and along with his hard work at school, has led to an exciting opportunity: Handing out the game ball at a Cleveland Guardians game. Liam’s hard work on and off the field stood […]
Kids with tics take in a baseball game with their hero, retired MLB player Jim Eisenreich
At age 64, Jim Eisenreich is a retired Major League Baseball player (1982-84, 1987-1998) known as a great hitter and with a World Series championship to his credit. He’s had a good life and rose quickly to the Major League. But part of him will always remember being a “kid who just wanted to be […]
Tourette service patients take in fall fun & friendship at Mapleside Farms
Under the soaring roof of a big red barn, the patient and providers in Akron Children’s Tic and Tourette Syndrome Service celebrated the growth of their program and the support and friendship that comes from sharing a diagnosis. The event, TIC Night Out (Together in the Community), has grown from 41 participants six years ago […]
Owen saddles up – and up, up, up goes his confidence
It could have been a late birthday gift or an early Christmas gift but, anyway you look at it, spending time riding a horse named Rambo was an experience Owen Culp won’t soon forget. Owen, who turned 17 on Dec. 6, had mentioned to Dr. Katrina Lindsay that he enjoyed caring for a neighbor’s horses […]
‘Be You at the Zoo,’ is a motto kids with tics, Tourette’s embrace on special night out
It started more than 5 years ago when a patient asked Dr. Katrina Lindsay how he could meet other kids who were like him. Since then, T.I.C. (Together in the Community) Night Out, a social event for Dr. Lindsay’s patients in her Tics and Tourette Service has grown and the fun has spread from […]