The Bay Farm Island event Oct. 21 was organized by the mother of a young man with the neurodevelopmental disorder.
The money raised will be split equally between the two nonprofits, with half going towards providing people on the Little Angels waitlist with service dogs and the other half supporting a special day camp for young children with Tourette syndrome that is held annually at Camp Arroyo in Livermore and run by the Taylor Family Foundation.
“There’s a singer who has tics and during a performance couldn’t finish his song and the audience finished for him. It was moving and got a lot of attention.” Ben received his canine companion in part due to funds raised by a previous walkathon. Fees for service dogs are about $40,000, and Adams says the family raised about $24,000 of the total amount through the previous walkathon and other fundraising activities. Little Angels Service Dogs provides free service dogs to disabled children and adults, and though the group doesn’t ask or require recipients to raise funds, donations to the organization help move individuals up the list.
Adams knows her son’s greatest problems when he’s in public are because his verbal outbursts and utterances don’t sound like tics. The exact cause of Tourette syndrome is unknown. Experts say it is likely caused by inherited and environmental factors and may involve how the brain transmits nerve impulses. There is no cure, but some people benefit from pharmaceutical treatments, lifestyle adjustments that reduce stress and therapy to lessen the symptoms.
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