Educator & Allied Professionals Conference in West Palm Beach
Over 400 educator's and health care professionals attended a presentation by Sue Conners and Dr. Alan Peterson at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Normally a CDC event, Gary Frank from National TSA came to West Palm on a grant from the Quantum Foundation to bring Sue and Dr. Peterson to speak to an eager crowd hoping to learn more about TS.
Presenters:
Susan Conners, M. Ed. Education Specialist Tourette Syndrome Association (TSA), a career educator known for effective and lively education presentations on Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders In The Classroom and School. She is a co-author of the TSA educators’ in-service and travels widely training professionals and families on Tourette Syndrome. She has presented on Tourette Syndrome to many national organizations and to officials of the US Dept. of Education.
Dr. Alan Peterson, Ph.D., ABPP is currently a professor at the University of Texas Health and Sciences Center in the psychiatry department located in San Antonio Texas. He is also the Director of the Center for Clinical Health and Psychology Research at the Wilford Hall Medical Center and is a research consultant for the Brook Army Medical Center’s Department of Behavioral Medicine in Texas. He was the proud recipient of a grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association to lead a project for the translation of tic assessment measures to Spanish.
The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Cohen Pavilion 701 Okeechobee Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33401