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TORTURE NOT TREATMENT
20 Id., at 4.
21 Id.
22 Id.
23 Jennifer Gonnerman, Nagging? Zap. Swearing? Zap., 32 Mother Jones, 36, 41 (Sept.-Oct. 2007).
24 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 2.
25 Sharon Lohrmann-O’Rourke and Perry A. Zirkel, The Case Law on Aversive Interventions for Students with
Disabilities, 65 Exceptional Children 101 (Fall 1998).
26 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 5, at "Is it true that one of the consequences JRC uses is to administer several GED
applications, over a half-hour period during which a student may be restrained on a restraint board?"
27 Patricia Wen, Showdown over shock therapy testimony moves some critics; new bill would limit, not ban,
treatment, The Boston Globe 1 (Jan. 17, 2008), available at
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/17/showdown_over_shock_therapy/.
28 Paul Kix, The Shocking Truth, Boston Magazine Online 3 (2008), available at
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_shocking_truth/.
29 Patricia Wen (2008), supra note 27, at 1.
30 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 5, at “The use of restraint as an aversive consequence.”
31 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 5, at “Multiple Applications of GED Combined with Restraint as an Aversive.”
32 Gregory D. Kutz, Seclusions and Restraints: Selected Cases of Death and Abuse at Public and Private Schools and
Treatment Centers, US Government Accountability Office, GAO-09-719T 4 (2009).
33 Matthew L. Israel, supra note 5.
34 Id., at "What aversives does JRC use, and what policies does JRC follow in using them?"
35 Behavior Research Institute v. Mary Kay Leonard (Settlement Agreement), No. 86E-0018-GI (Mass. Super. Ct.
Dept. of Trial Ct. and the Prob. Ct. and Fam. Ct. Dept. of the Trial Ct. Oct. 10, 1995)
36 Daniel Goleman, Embattled Giant of Psychology Speaks His Mind, N.Y. Times, Aug. 25, 1987, at C1 and C3.
37 New York Psychological Association Task Force, “Report of the New York Psychological Association Task Force on
Aversive Controls with Children,” 6 (August 22, 2006) *hereinafter NY Psychological Association Task Force+.
38 Id. Also, the National Disability Rights Network has documented the widespread use of restraints and seclusion
in schools throughout the United States which has resulted in physical injuries, emotional trauma and even deaths.
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