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55 MDRI Interview (2009).
56 TASH, TASH Resolution on Positive Behavioral Supports 1 (adopted Oct. 1981, revised March 2000), available at
http://www.tash.org/IRR/resolutions/res02behavior.htm (last visited April 23, 2010).
57 Matthew L. Israel., Use of Skin Shock as a Supplementary Aversive, Judge Rotenberg Center, para. 1 (2002),
available at http://www.judgerc.org/ (last visited April 21, 2010).
58 Matthew L. Israel (2002), supra note 57, at 1990-date: Development of the GED and GED-4 Devices.
59 Id.
60 Certification Team, Report of the Certification Team on the Application of the Judge Rotenberg Education Center
for Level II Behavior Modification Certification, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Health &
Human Services, Department of Mental Retardation 10 (April 27, 2009) (on file with author).
61 Id.
62 Jennifer Gonnerman (Sept.-Oct. 2007), supra note 3, at 41.
63 Certification Team (2009), supra note 60, at 28.
64 MDRI Interview (2009).
65 MDRI Interview (2009).
66 MDRI Interview (2009).
67 NYSED Review Team (2006), supra note 17, at 7.
68 Matthew L. Israel (2002), supra note 57, at Exhibit 203.
69 Id.
70 Id.
71 Id. at “Development of the GED-4.”
72 M.G.L. c. 272, § 77.
73 1,000 milliamps equals 1 amp. The Physicals Factbook, Electric Current of a Stun Gun, available at
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/LukeWorkoff.shtml (last visited April 8, 2010). 1,000 milliamps equals 1
amp.
74 Letter from Disability Advocates, Addendum to A Call to Action to Eliminate the Use of Aversive Procedures and
Other Inhumane Practices 3 (Sept. 2009), citing The Boston Globe, April 28, 1995.
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