The document discusses strategies for teaching English to fourth grade students with Tourette syndrome. It notes that Tourette syndrome affects many people in Costa Rica but teachers have little understanding of the condition. The study aimed to provide teachers with information about Tourette syndrome and techniques for teaching English to these students. It recommends that the Ministry of Education provide teacher training on Tourette syndrome and universities include information on the condition in teaching programs.

1. LICENCIATURA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS
“TEACHING ENGLISH TO
CHILDREN WITH TOURETTE
SYNDROME IN FOURTH GRADE”
BACH. MAGDA YESENIA AGÜERO AGÜERO
SETIEMBRE 2011

2. 1. 30.000 people have been diagnosed in CR
with the syndrome
2. Is there enough information about it?

3. •General Objective
To provide English teachers strategies
for teaching English to fourth grade
students
syndrome.
who
suffer
of
Tourette

4. •Specific Objectives
1.To provide general information on the
syndrome to both parents and teachers.
2.To adapt the information to the whole
English educational process.
3.To encourage a better learning environment
to this population.

5. Variable Nº 1.
Tourette Syndrome.

6. VariableNº2.
English educational
process.

7. Variable Nº 3.
Learning environment of
the population.

8. The descriptive method was used to hold
this investigation

9. 1. Escuela Sagrado Corazón
2. Ten English teachers

11. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

12. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

13. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

14. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

15. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

16. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

17. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

18. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

19. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

20. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

21. Source: Yesenia Agueo A, Teaching English to Children with Tourette Syndrome in Fourth Grade, 2011

23. 1. Tourette Syndrome is a medical condition that
affects many people in Costa Rica
2. A high percentage of English teachers do not
know what Tourette Syndrome is
3. Teachers misunderstand
syndrome is
what
Tourette
4. Therapy or medical treatment helps, but is not
all

24. 5. Teachers agree they do not know sufficient
techniques to teach English to children with
Tourette Syndrome.
6. Nine out of ten teachers have never received
any training on Tourrete Syndrome.
7. The training by the MEP or any other
institution on Tourette Syndrome has not
existed.

25. To the Ministry of Public Education (MEP)
1.Take into count a Tourette Syndrome
like one special condition of a child who
will receive primary education and has
special necessities.
2.Train the English Teachers about the
Tourette Syndrome, and supply them of
techniques to work with this population.

26. To the English Teachers
1.Look for information about the Tourette
Syndrome
with
the
corresponding
professional involved.
2.Ask the MEP to give English teachers
training on strategies to teach English at
students suffering of Tourette Syndrome.

27. 1. Search for information about the side
effects medical treatment can provoke on
children suffering of Tourette Syndrome.
2. Keep close communication with Tourette
Syndrome student’s Parents.

28. To Universities
1. Include into the curriculum of Teaching
English, basic information about Tourette
Syndrome and other disorders that will
affect the teaching process in the
classrooms.

29. General Objective
Raise awareness about the important
aspects of Tourette Syndrome.

30. Specific Objectives
1.To provide English teachers educational
characteristics about students with
Tourette Syndrome
2.To give English teachers techinical support
to work with students with Tourette
Syndrome.

31. 1. Directed to English teachers
2. Escuela Sagrado Corazón
3. Time 3 hours

32. …“ if teachers know how to handle properly
children facing this kind of syndrome, they
will not only be helping them to learm a
second language, but they also will be the
responsible of creating a happy and
confident person, capable to give our
society the best of him/her self”.