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 ...
Medically reviewed by Kira Graves, PhD Key Takeaways Aversion therapy tries to help people stop unwanted behaviors by linking ...
The legal battle began in an Attleboro courthouse back in the mid-1980s. Two students had died in group homes in Attleboro and Seekonk run by the Behavior Research Institute, which used a ...
The FDA proposed a ban on electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, the agency announced Monday. In a step "rarely" taken by the agency, the ...