She and Brad went to a doctor and showed it to him, he was baffled by the fact that the kid (Brad), indeed had it because at that time, tourette’s syndrome wasn’t a known or populardisorder yet. She saw about the tourette’s syndrome and knew that Brad had the same symptoms. Her will and determination to know what Brad had was really inspiring. She went to every library there was in the town they were at, reading every book there was about speech disorders, which I think is a very mother thing to do. His mother didn’t let the doctors’ statements about Brad affect her, so what she did was research about what was happening with Brad. His mother was with him through everything, they went to every doctor there was in town and not one of them could identify what was wrong with Brad. Many months have passed and Brad was eventually kicked out in the school he went to, obviously because of the tics he made. The Cohen family didn’t understand or saw Brad’s tics to be a problem, they thought it was just a phase for Brad or that he could control those, especially his dad. Jeff and Brad would always race home and spend their time together.īefore you ask, yes, in the beginning of the film neither Brad, his parents, or the people around him knew that he had tourette’s syndrome. Even his teachers thought that the reason he made noises was because he wanted to be the class clown. His classmates were bullying him non-stop for making voices that they thought were just ways on how Brad annoyed people. As a kid with tourette’s syndrome, he was bullied, might I say a lot.
#FRONT OF THE CLASS MOVIE#
The movie starts with Brad Cohen as a kid. Not many actors can act as a person with Tourette’s.
Their acting in here was magnificent and superb in a different way. Let me give you a quick summary about this film, refusing to be beaten by his affliction, Tourette’s syndrome sufferer Brad Cohen vows to become a teacher, overcoming prejudice, ignorance and fear as he struggles to make his dream come true.įirst of all, I would like to compliment and applaud James Wolk and Dominic Scott Kay for doing a great job in portraying as Brad Cohen. Tourette’s syndrome, a common neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood, characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic, is something that wasn’t recognized back in the days.
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