The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a private Massachusetts residential and day school, has for decades used shock therapy on students with developmental and emotional disabilities to curb ...

Facing mounting pressure and at least one criminal investigation over its use of shock therapy on its wards, a Massachusetts clinic that is home to several District of Columbia students has gone ...

Video of Shock Therapy Shows Life Inside School for Disabled Kids ... The subject of the electric pulses was Andre McCollins, who at the time was an 18-year-old with a severe behavioral disorder.

Mass. school prevails despite decades of opposition to its use of shocks for therapy. FDA trying again to stop the shocks is the latest effort to ban aversive treatment ...

Electroconvulsive therapy used to be called electroshock therapy and it was developed in 1938 to treat certain mental disorders. Its history is not a rosy one.

SJC says Rotenberg Center can continue electric skin shock therapy; ... the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Canton-based school ... the SJC ruled against lifting a 36-year-old ...