{"id":3756,"date":"2014-04-11T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2014-04-11T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:28:16","slug":"electric-shock-is-never-an-educational-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/electric-shock-is-never-an-educational-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Shock is Never An Educational Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an issue that most of us can probably agree on: NO MORE ELECTRIC SHOCK for “treating” autism! I have written several times about the Judge Rotenberg Center, not 30 minutes away from me, and there they are infamous for their “method” of addressing “problem behaviors.”<\/a> (Air quotes galore, because JRC is a sham.)<\/p>\n

Once again, there is no behavior that justifies this. If you think you need to resort to electric shock, which has been outlawed by The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. If we are forbidden by the nation — and virtually the world — to use electric shock as punishment or for “instructive” purposes, then how in God’s green earth can anyone justify using this barbaric method on a student? On anyone? Where’s the uproar? Where’s the outrage?<\/p>\n

When I think of my darling Nat — and how he’s had to fight first to understand this sensory-insane world, how to deal with it, and finally, how to make his way in it successfully — I could just cry, to imagine a person like him being shocked, being hurt, abused, any of that. It makes me nauseated to my core. It brings up rumblings of hatred in me.<\/p>\n

What does it do inside those students?<\/p>\n

Below is the latest call for submissions, from the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN). Click on this tiny image to read it.<\/p>\n

We have until Monday April 14 to submit opinion here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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