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I can’t speak for others as everyone has different ways of dealing with it, but things that DD has found helpful:
Making sure all teachers and staff are fully aware and understand. The worst thing for DD was walking into a classroom and wondering if her teacher knew - we had a supply teacher a little while ago who hadn’t read her pupil passport and it all went pear shaped very quickly.
DD has a collection of bitey, rubbery, squashy/stress ball things that she uses as a bit of a distraction, also doodling helps. At first teachers weren’t keen as they felt they would be a distraction but DD finds the more her hands are occupied the better
Ignore the tics, unless she hurting herself, and never try and stop them. DD occasionally gets ones where she punches herself in the face, we try and redirect them but never stop them - it just makes them worse. DD hates being smothered and is much happier when a teacher calmly sits beside her and just talks nonsense with her, rather than lots of concern.
School have been fab and she has lots of access arrangements - her tics mean she struggles to write sometimes so she has a scribe for exams, she gets hand locking tics sometimes, last week she spent a whole lesson opening and closing a laptop so her teachers are great at emailing her notes from class and just being realistic about when work will be handed in - she gets extra time for tests, takes tests on her own,
Being able to just get up and leave a classroom without any fuss if she needs to. She sits at the back of the classroom and has a red card, she puts the card down and leaves. She can then go to a quiet area to chill until the tics calm down.
Tourette’s Action have some resources for schools. Just talk to the child and their parents - how do they manage it at home?
www.tourettes-action.org.uk/60-professionals.html