Mass. school at center of treatment controversy

Sunday, September 14, 2014 - 06:30 in Health & Medicine

The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center outside Boston is the only place in the country known to use electrical skin shocks as aversive conditioning for patients with severe developmental and behavior disorders who harm themselves or others. The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to ban the skin shock devices used by the center....

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