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 ...

Later Tuesday state representatives will hear a proposal for a ban on so-called "skin shock," or aversive therapy, for children attending the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The JRC is the only ...

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.

The reputation of shock therapy has alternately risen and fallen since 1938, when an Italian psychiatrist named Ugo Cerletti decided to try shocking one of his patients, a 39-year-old man, after ...

The 36-year-old special-needs school has enlisted a group of parents to testify on the benefits of so-called aversive therapy, Rotenberg spokesman Ernie Corrigan said.

DEDHAM, Mass. – The founder of a Massachusetts special-needs school agreed to resign Wednesday, settling charges that he interfered with the investigation of shock therapy administered to two ...

Shock Therapy: In a separate case, “the family of a former student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment ...

Convulsive therapy was introduced in the mid-1930s, when scientists discovered that by triggering a seizure, they were able to shock psychiatric patients back into a functioning state of mind.