Comments on: More Questionable Practices at the JRC

By: JRC Records Seized by State Police

JRC Records Seized by State Police — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:34:43 +0000

[...] to condemn the JRC’s shock therapy and other “aversive” treatments. In December of 2007, more questionable practices at the JRC were noted in an article by the Boston Globe. Back in January, a key legislative committee in [...]

By: Massachusetts Considers Bill about Shock Treatment at the JRC

Massachusetts Considers Bill about Shock Treatment at the JRC — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:58:26 +0000

[...] their children, some of whom have autism, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities. Other serious administrative lapses and questionable protocols and practices in the supervision and training of staff and the treatment of children at the school have also been [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:22:24 +0000

This is the School of Shock webpage on the JRC.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:18:52 +0000

@Christschool:
“I would like to note, if Kristina will approve, that my comment under SchoolofShock, was primarily directed to her for not allowing my previous comment which dealt with exposing those who make the torture of children and adults possible and a redirection to a new website where there will be a repository of information on JRC. ”

Christschool, I apologize. If comments have a lot of URLs/links, they sometimes end up in SPAM (I will, in cowardly fashion, blame the software) and I am not always as diligent in noting these. I am looking for your comment now; if you can note that date that you posted it, I will also retrieve it. Best wishes and thanks to Ed, too.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:46:45 +0000

Why is that Kristina?

Why would comments be moderated in such a way?

This isn’t unbiased journalism or any kind of dipomacy at all.

This would instead fall under the catagory of wanting to “promote awareness” of all the wrong things with all the wrong motivations.

If you are not willing to allow people who are willing to work to prevent torture to post here, you need to specifically describe your position so that people can identify your very dangerous position and not confuse your position with people who really care and want to help.

By: christschool

christschool — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:07:36 +0000

I would like to note, if Kristina will approve, that my comment under SchoolofShock, was primarily directed to her for not allowing my previous comment which dealt with exposing those who make the torture of children and adults possible and a redirection to a new website where there will be a repository of information on JRC. I note that many comments derogatory towards autistic people are allowed through, but a comment saying those that do business with JRC should be exposed so that others can determine whether they want to associate themselves with institutions and persons that perpetuate this torture.

By: Marla

Marla — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:36:25 +0000

Terrible.

By: Kate Ahern

Kate Ahern — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:04:23 +0000

You should read NY’s report on JRC http://boston.com/news/daily/15/school_report.pdf also you should check out some of the you tube videos like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9-xXfgQiTU which actually is a little inaccurate because it states the the shock devices are removed for bathing but they aren’t always.

And there is this article on HIPPA violations http://www.kevinleitch.co.uk/wp/?p=391

and I am sure you have already read the mother jones article http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/nagging_zap_swearing_zap.html

You should also read the JRC website and the wayback machine archives of the JRC website (unless Matthew Isreal finally got the archives removed) for info about how students are forced to eat an almost all vegan diet, have food with held, have no privacy, are not allowed therapy have speech and OT removed from their IEPS, how JRC “doesn’t need functional analysis” because it “doesn’t matter why” the behaviors happen.

I live and work in Mass and am ashamed of JRC. I have had friends visit their and leave sickened by what they saw. One friend was their to install wiring for closed circuit tv and asked why he kept hearing screams. Finally he was told it was kids being shocked.

Frankly our prisoners in the USA are better treated.

By: SchoolofShock

SchoolofShock — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:06:22 +0000

I’m wondering. Can there be certain things that are too radical for certain people when it comes to advocating against torture? Was Simon Wiesenthal too radical in his pursuit of exposing war criminals? Is it too radical to post the names of people who help the “system” set up to torture children and adults? Would that be impolite? While we are all being polite about it, someone is being shocked tonight because of a neurological difference with which they have no control over.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:38:16 +0000

to Marla:
what’s worse, even more adults than students get shocked- according to JRC’s own website, it’s about 85 PERCENT.