OUR NETWORK

The Asociación Madrileña de Pacientes con Síndrome de Tourette y Trastornos Asociados (AMPASTTA) was created on November 15, 2001, as a result of the union of four families whose children were affected by Tourette Syndrome.

AMPASTTA takes special care of those affected, mostly young people and their families, because they also need support. Thus, monthly work meetings are held for the families, workshops on Mindfulness, non-violent communication, animal therapy and information workshops on the affectation of the executive functions suffered by the patients are promoted.

One of AMPASTTA’s most important goals is to educate affected youth and the public about the many facets of tic disorders. Increasing the public’s understanding and tolerance of TS symptoms is of vital importance to sufferers.

The Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette (APST), created on December 29, 2017, currently has 17 full members and more than 30 friendly members.

The Tourette Syndrome Association Portugal is a non-profit association of national scope. Its main activities are related to the scientific, educational, research and social aspects of Tourette Syndrome.

The aim of the Association is to promote the integration of people with Tourette Syndrome. To this end, it performs activities and clinical services in the medical, educational, psychological and in general all areas related to Tourette Syndrome and other associated disorders, in order to provide people with this disease, as well as their families, the best possible quality of life.

Tourette-Gesellschaft Deutschland (TGD) was founded in 1993 as a non-profit association. The founders were Rainer Fischer, affected by Tourette’s, and Prof. Dr. Aribert Rothenberger, who built up this entity with commitment and drive. The association was unique in the German-speaking area and gained members from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The statutory objectives of the association are to raise awareness and provide continuous information about Tourette Syndrome (TS) and to improve treatment methods for those affected.

Our organization carries out activities to:

– Build a strong community

– Advise our members

– Show new perspectives in the treatment of TS

– Sustainably promote the interests of sufferers and their families

– Create national and European networks

– To carry out specific activities for children and young people with TS

– Participate in scientific and educational studies

– Documentaries on TS

– Equine therapy

Redtree Making Projects Coop. V. is a social cooperative active in the fields of education, training, and educational materials designed by science and for social affairs. Its aim is to help social and educational organizations to develop their framework and improve the quality of their products through training, specific development plans, social studies, grant applications, legal advising, bureaucratic procedures, etc. We want to reach better educational levels and improve the employability and inclusion of students.

We also have close relationships of cooperation and joint work with very diverse social and educational organizations, such as associations of people with special needs and their families, educational centers, foundations, etc. This joint work done over the years has led us to opening new specific work fields for students with special educational needs (SEN), mainly the design of inclusive educational projects and the creation of new materials and tools adapted to their needs.

Redtree’s projects and areas of expertise are intersectorial, since we have been working mainly in 4 educational sectors: school education, professional training, adult education, and the training of young people through non-formal and informal education. As a social cooperative we have developed very diverse functions within four educational sectors, ranging from the design of educational projects at the European level, to materials and educational tools, project quality control and monitoring, advisory and consulting functions, etc, plus the experience coordinating our own Erasmus+ projects.

Smallcodes is a company devoted to protecting and promoting linguistic diversity through technology. Its objective is to create a network among minorities to guarantee for each language a systematic and constant presence both in the written and the IT world. The languages which are currently part of the Smallcodes community are Occitan, Sardinian, Ladin, Walser, Francoprovençal, Lombard dialect of Italian Switzerland, Cimbrian, Mòcheno, Plodarisch, Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico, Romani and many others.

Smallcodes intends to close the digital gap between majority languages and regional and minority languages, and in order to achieve this goal, it produces software for lexicography, spellchecking and neology/terminology planning for lesser-used languages, plus systems for toponymy cataloging and bibliographic archiving. These five modules are, according to Smallcodes’s policy, the first step towards a modern use of languages.

The company is also involved with publishing projects (books, DVDs and e-books for minority languages), the implementation of ICT resources for school education (teaching applications and e-books, language portals) and geolinguistic projects (maps with the traditional geographic place names).