Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts school wins court battle to use electric shock therapy on self-harming disabled students A Massachusetts school has ...
After years of tacitly endorsing the only facility in the country known to use electric shocks to address behavior in those with developmental disabilities, a major behavior analysis organization is ...
A federal court of appeals ruled on Tuesday that a Massachusetts school for children with disabilities can continue administering electric shocks to its students. The school, along with a group of ...
The editorial in the Sept. 11 edition of the Globe regarding the use of electric shock therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton posits that all that’s required are “substantive ...
To stop a controversial electric shock therapy, the disability community is owed better alternatives
The Judge Rotenberg Center, once again the center of national controversy over its use of painful electric shocks to treat intellectually or developmentally disabled patients, is a place of last ...
More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...
After a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court, a Massachusetts facility is allowed to continue to use controversial devices to electric shock its clients. But advocates are hoping to change that ...
Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, ...
Two recent pieces of legislation are renewing a long-running fight over the practice of using electric shocks on people with disabilities as a behavior modification tool — and the role of New York ...
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