School Uses Shock Therapy on Autistic Students: Constructive or Cruel?
SodaHead News
2012/05/23 13:00:00
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The Judge Rotenberg Center, a special needs school in Massachusetts, is facing major controversy this week as information about the school's shock therapy program come to light. According to CNN, a student was treated for post traumatic stress disorder after receiving 31 electric shocks in a seven hour period. Officials were apparently trying to hide video footage of the shocking treatment, but was recently required to reveal it.
Other parents say the school is saving lives. One mother claims the shock treatment helped her son immensely, and calls the school a "godsend." Critics aren't so sure. Some call it torture. A group of opponents are even organizing a protest called Occupy JRC, to be held on June 2. It will include a wide range of speakers, from parents to disability advocates. But do you think shock therapy could be constructive?
Other parents say the school is saving lives. One mother claims the shock treatment helped her son immensely, and calls the school a "godsend." Critics aren't so sure. Some call it torture. A group of opponents are even organizing a protest called Occupy JRC, to be held on June 2. It will include a wide range of speakers, from parents to disability advocates. But do you think shock therapy could be constructive?
2. After all the horror stories of asylums and hospitals -OF THE PAST- using shock therapy.....are we really having to discuss this all these years later?
If we can't stick a needle in some murderers arm because he has collapsed veins and heaven forbid he suffer!, then we shouldn't be giving shock therapy to kids that have no idea what is happening to them or why.
If....IF.....shock therapy is beneficial, then doctors and scientists need to get together and figure out how to do it more humanely, without pain. But until that happens, no-no-NO.
You’re kidding, right? You honestly expect the average person to have that much imagination to come up with new names, when even the news media fails to do so? It’s been two generations since Nixon’s resignation and they’re still sticking the “-gate” suffix at the end of almost every political scandal (and even some non-political scandals — “Climategate,” anyone?)!
Okay, “Whitewatergate” (Clinton) was kinda clever, but none of the others have been.
I'm no medical expert (not that good at science lol) but I fail to see how electrically shocking a teenage boy (or girl) would help with autism/PTSD. n.n
Check this out - http://youtu.be/u-aYxu4Uys0
The people who enjoy or want to do things like that to other people are the ones with the real problem.
To say that because it's painful, it must be bad though would be judging without evidence. By that line of thought, chemotherapy is cruel, even though it saves countless lives.
I'd probably shape up too if I knew I'd be getting another 'treatment' if I didn't.