The video is brutal: a young man, pinned face down in four-point restraints, receiving 31 electric shocks over the course of several hours that convulse his body with pain. But this is not Guantánamo or Syria. The electric shocks were delivered in Massachusetts, at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) for autistic, emotionally disturbed and developmentally disabled youth. JRC is currently the only place in the U.S. that is legally permitted to provide this so-called aversive therapy.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/23/shock-school-trial-where-is-the-evidence-that-abuse-helps-treat-autism/#ixzz1uh8y4GJT
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