Brad Cohen

Brad Cohen (born December 18, 1973 ) is an American motivational speaker , teacher , school administrator and author who has had Tourette's syndrome since childhood .

Cohen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from Bradley University and a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Georgia State University .

Together with Lisa Wysocky he wrote the book Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, in which he tells his life story. This book was filmed in 2008 under the title Front of the Class . In Germany it ran for the first time on April 11, 2011 under the title Tics - My annoying companions on ProSieben.

Although tics tend to be less common in Tourette's syndrome as they age, Cohen still barks today.

Web links

• Brad Cohen on frontoftheclassbook.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Book Front of the Class ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved February 28, 2015. 
2. ^ JF Leckman, H. Zhang, A. Vitale A et al.: Course of tic severity in Tourette syndrome: the first two decades. In: Pediatrics 102 (1 Pt 1) (1998), pp. 14–19, PMID 9651407 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ). 
3. ^ JE Swain, L. Scahill, PJ Lombroso, RA King, JF Leckman: Tourette syndrome and tic disorders: a decade of progress. In: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 46.8 (August 2007), pp. 947-968, doi : 10.1097 / chi.0b013e318068fbcc PMID 17667475 .