Read more from Internet and related books. Until you are well informed, you would have no choice but listen to the doctors.
Here are some articles from Time. They are overview style articles and should be a good start.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649303,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994126,00.html
From what I remembered (from reading), majority can get better themselves. For those cannot, their lives can still be very productive. I would be very very careful to give medicine that could alternate brain chemistry to a young boy. (I don't remember reading about using medicine for children's tic. This could be I did not research thoroughly.)
Here are some articles from Time. They are overview style articles and should be a good start.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1649303,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994126,00.html
From what I remembered (from reading), majority can get better themselves. For those cannot, their lives can still be very productive. I would be very very careful to give medicine that could alternate brain chemistry to a young boy. (I don't remember reading about using medicine for children's tic. This could be I did not research thoroughly.)