Someone claiming to be Matthew Israel (the founder and man in charge at Judge Rotenberg) left this comment on my last post:
Ms. Gonnerman’s article “School of Shock,” which appears in the September/October issue of the Mother Jones magazine, is an entirely one-sided and biased account of the court- and parent-approved behavior modification therapy used at the Judge Rotenberg Center to successfully treat, without drugs, severe (sometimes life-threatening) behavior problems of children and young adults with special needs that have not responded to any other form of treatment. For readers who would like to hear the other side of this story, please see this.
Well, I read it. I encourage you to do the same. Everyone deserves the full story. And, when you are done reading it, I look forward to finding out where you stand on this subject.
I doubt it will change your mind about whether or not children should be hooked up to shocking machines. Who knows though. There are still folks out there who sings W's praises after all he's done. This world is pretty batshit crazy.
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Wow, I am amazed at the defensive response your blog received! Sounds like you (and Ms. Gonnerman) really unnerved someone with that pesky freedom of speech. The response serves as a very well constructed, well-articulated argument for exploiting and abusing vulnerable children in order to conduct experiments with the added benefit of brings in annual revenues exceeding $56 million.
Take a look at the following:
http://www.effectivetreatment.org/
http://www.brianajoyce.com/news/motherjonesshock.html
http://banaversives.blogspot.com/
http://www.thearc.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?&pid=1367&srcid=217
http://www.autism.org/adviceforparents.html
http://www.minddisorders.com/A-Br/Aversion-therapy.html
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