Most people would consider electric shock treatment as torture, but the parents of students at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center do not. You can understand why because the parents feel that the treatment their kids are receiving at the Center is the first time that the kids have been under control. I've written before about the Center and each time I've wondered what I would do if my child behaved the way most of the Center students have before going to the Center.
I write today because, once more, the Center is in the news; this time for its lobbying efforts last year. The Center spent $100,000 in its efforts to kill a bill that it felt would ban the treatment they feature. Since the Center's revenue is about $50,000,000, $100,000 is not a lot of money. Yet, the Boston Globe discusses the lobbying in a major article.
Perhaps, what really makes the case against the Center's treatment is that it is the only school in the U.S that uses electric shock therapy as a behavior modification technique. The following is a sound objection to the practice: “If it was so good, everybody else would be doing it,’’ said Barbara Trader, executive director of TASH, a disabled rights group in Washington.
I write today because, once more, the Center is in the news; this time for its lobbying efforts last year. The Center spent $100,000 in its efforts to kill a bill that it felt would ban the treatment they feature. Since the Center's revenue is about $50,000,000, $100,000 is not a lot of money. Yet, the Boston Globe discusses the lobbying in a major article.
Perhaps, what really makes the case against the Center's treatment is that it is the only school in the U.S that uses electric shock therapy as a behavior modification technique. The following is a sound objection to the practice: “If it was so good, everybody else would be doing it,’’ said Barbara Trader, executive director of TASH, a disabled rights group in Washington.
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