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Calif. threatens to shut down Sonoma disability center amid patient abuse
California Watch has a series of stories recently discussing abuses and California’s developmental centers and failures by their in in-house law enforcement to properly investigate and prosecute those...
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San Diego Family accuses caregivers of abuse
A family of an autistic young adult have accused caregivers of abuse after secretly recording video. In apparently pretrial hearings, the mother explains what she saw. The defense causes her of...
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Comment on National prevalence rates of bully victimization among students...
Bullying is a major issue. This is especially true among the disabled. A recent study focused on bullying within the school aged autistic population, and I discussed that at the Autism Science...
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Is Slate misrepresenting the Neurodiversity movement?
In a word, yes. In, Is the Neurodiversity Movement Misrepresenting Autism?, Slate.com author and autism parent Amy Lutz argues that the neurodiversity movement is essentially dividing the autism...
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Via Autistic Hoya: Judge Rotenberg Center Survivor’s Letter
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is a school for autistic students which incorporates aversives into the program for some of their students. These aversives are electric shocks delivered via...
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An account from a survivor of the Judge Rotenberg Center
Recently I wrote about a letter from a survivor of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC). At the time I did not know if I needed permission to publish the letter in full so I linked to the post I found it...
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Boston Globe: Patrick fights Rotenberg shock therapy decree
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is known for its use of electric shocks as an aversive therapy for behavior modification. The center is named for Judge Rotenbrg, whose settlement decision 25 years...
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Robert Saylor’s death ruled homicide
A gentleman with Down Syndrome went to the movies recently. When the movie was finished, he decided to stay to see it again. In other words, he did not get out of his seat; he did not buy a new ticket....
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Newspaper Poll: Should Electric Shocks Continue at the Judge Rotenberg Center
I just received this message from Nancy Weiss. A newspaper local to the Judge Rotenberg Center is hosting a poll on whether the electric shocks should continue. The Canton Journal (the local newspaper...
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New York to pull students from the Judge Rotenberg Center?
The press release below was just forwarded to me. New York City Councilmember Vincent Gentile is calling for students from the city (roughly 1/2 of the total) at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) to be...
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Letter from New York State Education Department to Judge Rotenberg Center:...
The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) is known for its use of strong aversives in the educational programs of many of the students resident there. These aversives are delivered via electric shocks from...
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San Francisco Chronicle: Texas Senate passes special education cameras bill
A big question is how does one monitor the status of a special education classroom when the students are unable to communicate effectively? With a non disabled child, or a disabled child who can...
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San Jose Mercury News: Three East Bay parents of autistic kindergarten...
Following on the discussion of Texas allowing video monitoring of special education classrooms, a story from the California San Francisco Bay Area points out why such monitors are needed: Three East...
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ASAN Releases Policy Brief on Organ Transplant Discrimination; Meets with...
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) issed a policy brief last month on the subject of organ transplant discrimination. Over the past year a few cases of denial of organ transplants on the basis...
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Sun Times: Lawsuit alleges school bus aide slapped autistic boy
The Chicago Sun Times reports Lawsuit alleges school bus aide slapped autistic boy. A mother noticed her child was resisting going on the school bus so she put a voice recorder in his backpack. She...
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An example of why protections must be in place for special education funding
Federal law requires that schools do not reduce support for special education. School can reduce support, but if and when they do they face penalties. The Federal Government has never lived up to its...
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Greg Simard pleads guilty in attempted murder of autistic boy
This is one of those stories that is so awful as to be unbelievable. The full story is at Greg Simard pleads guilty to attempted murder. An autistic boy was in a residential placement. On one of his...
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Whitewashing the brutal murder of Alex Spourdalakis
Alex Spourdalakis was a 14 year old autistic who was brutally murdered by his mother and another caregiver. Among those with extraordinary needs, Mr. Spourdalikis had extraordinary needs. Shortly...
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Autism Group Petitions CBS News: Take Down Dangerous Video
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism started a change.org petition: CBS News: Take down the video Behind the Tragedy: Mother Murders Autistic Son The petition has over 1500 signatures as of today....
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Andrew Wakefield, apparently he’s making films to convince you that doctors...
It can be very interesting to hear what people say when they are in their home element. Ken Reibel showed this when he reported back from an AutismOne parent convention six years ago. More recently, we...
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