Gwen Vogelgang
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271 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2019
last heard Oct 2019
Gwen Vogelgang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it's not that stereotypical view that people are just screaming out vulgarities.
You get that a lot, shockingly.
just people assuming that that's what Tourette's
And for us, Tourette's, he didn't get diagnosed until he was like seven or eight because we just didn't know that that's what it was.
So it's just the complex movement.
For him, it's mostly above the shoulders.
So sometimes it's eye blinking or sometimes it's shoulder scrunching or he makes little squeaking sounds, but he also is an incredible sound maker, like
Do you want to do your cricket kind of quietly?
He is a really good song maker.
That is true.
And some of it is just that constant need to be making noise.
And so it becomes just a habitual thing.
And that's tricky, right?
When you're in quiet settings and in environments where you're expected to behave a certain way,
Tourette's is a pretty tricky
to have to navigate, but he also educates all of his classes every year about his Tourette's at the very beginning of the year.
And he'll use that video he did with Chris with special books by special kids.
And that has been invaluable for teaching his classmates about what to expect with him.
And then I think the most beautiful aspect of that is that it opens up dialogue within the
classrooms for other kids to talk about, you know, little things that might be unexpected about them that their classmates will see.
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