School Uses Shock Therapy on Autistic Students: Constructive or Cruel?
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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?
Autistic children are very intuitive, and have a good sense of what goes on beneath the surface. Most autistic children can tell from a mile off what a person's true intentions are. It's just that with most types of autism, the patient is unable to convey their thoughts and emotions properly. The best way to deal with a patient is to genuinely and truly be their friend. You need to treat them as an equal, AND MEAN it.
It's crucial that you're genuine, and if you are being false, you will only hurt the patient. We know. We always know. Sometimes we give the benefit of the doubt, but in truth we know what's going on all along. You may think you fooled us. You may think that you can get away with veiled patronisation and hidden criticism, but you're really not.
The other characteristic that we all have in common is a stalwart sense of right and wrong. We are always great at issues of morality. It's born in us. It's rare for an autistic person to b...
Autistic children are very intuitive, and have a good sense of what goes on beneath the surface. Most autistic children can tell from a mile off what a person's true intentions are. It's just that with most types of autism, the patient is unable to convey their thoughts and emotions properly. The best way to deal with a patient is to genuinely and truly be their friend. You need to treat them as an equal, AND MEAN it.
It's crucial that you're genuine, and if you are being false, you will only hurt the patient. We know. We always know. Sometimes we give the benefit of the doubt, but in truth we know what's going on all along. You may think you fooled us. You may think that you can get away with veiled patronisation and hidden criticism, but you're really not.
The other characteristic that we all have in common is a stalwart sense of right and wrong. We are always great at issues of morality. It's born in us. It's rare for an autistic person to be inaccurate on issues of morality.
In synopsis, autism is a disorder which inhibits certain areas of the brain. Generally, it affects emotions, communication, and social skills. But the trade-off is, autism patients have deadly accurate intuition, great intelligence, and an infallible sense of morality. They do not call ASD patients "knowledgeable idiots" without reason.
mental disorder. A couple of generations ago it was widely popular in "mental hospitals" of that day, which were laboratories much like Dr. Frankenstein's. No one today could imagine the tortures that went on in such places, except the morticians who claimed the
bodies and the "staff" that witnessed the acts.
I'm not a doctor, so I can offer no authoritative criticism of the actions of the doctors administering this treatment, much like I don't criticize doctors who questionably prescribe marijuana for unspecified, or any, ailment in certain states.
If it works without using psychiatric pharmaceuticals to pickle their brains for the rest of their lives, so much the better.
The sedative protects the patient from the experience and the "paralytic" protects the patients body from the convulsive effects.
Lethal injection uses a sedative, a muscle relaxant and an electrolyte. The difference here is that the electrolyte is what is actually used for lethal effect. Potassium chloride (KCL) is given to stop the heart. The others are used to make the process more humane to the prisoner.
Medications have multiple uses and your rhetoric doesn't change that.
I still content that your demonizing of the various medications used is asinine and fear-mongering at best.
Also, as more has come out about this case, this was not ECT. This was behavioral control via devices that caused shocks remotely. This was not humane and is not accepted medical treatment.
However, be that as it may, you still need to do a better job informing yourself on what medical treatments are actually out there and what accepted treatments are.