To characterize the aversive therapy used at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center http://www.judgerc.org/ (JRC) as torture, as Laurie Ahern of Disability Rights ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for people ...

I’M TED WAYMAN WCVB. NEWSCENTER 5. TED. THANK YOU. PAINFUL ELECTRIC SHOCKS USED ON STUDENTS AT A SCHOOL FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS THIS IS AN ISSUE FIVE INVESTIGATES HAS ...

YEARS. AND MIKE, YOU HEARD FROM BOTH SIDES TODAY. I DID MARIA THE JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE COUNTRY THAT USES THOSE PAINFUL ELECTRIC SHOCKS AS TREATMENT. THE SCHOOL SAYS IT WILL ...

The Center’s director and founder, Dr. Matthew Israel (who is licensed by Massachusetts), says that it was an honest error. “I believe that we and our ...

In this July 15, 2014 photograph, a therapist wears the remote shocking device on his belt as he monitors a student at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Mass. State lawmakers heard ...

Seven months after D.C. officials promised to have gotten the District’s disabled and mentally ill citizens out of a Massachusetts shock-therapy clinic, three of them still are confined in the school, ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, state Rep. Danielle Gregoire, D-Marlborough, is renewing her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock ...