Students Traumatized in Special Education Across America, Seclusion, Restraint, and Aversives – For over a decade, the United States Health & Human Services Department’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recognized that seclusion and restraint are traumatic NOT therapeutic. Mental health experts have developed tools and protocols that have successfully helped […]
Unexpected spaces of confinement: Aversive technologies, intellectual disability, and ‘‘bare life’’ – Giorgio Agamben describes the ‘‘camp’’ as the ‘‘zone of indistinction between law and violence’’ where bodies located in exceptional spaces are stripped of citizenship rights and embody ‘‘bare life.’’ We deploy Agamben’s analysis to the context of the everyday violence of aversive […]
Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization – As autistic activists, Shain M. Neumeier and Lydia X. Z. Brown have been working to close the Judge Rotenberg Center in the US, which has engaged in some of the most egregious forms of such abuse, […]
Torture, not Treatment: Electric Shock and Long-Term Restraint in the United States on Children and Adults with Disabilities at the Judge Rotenberg Center – This report is the product of an investigation by Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) into the human rights abuses of children and young adults with mental disabilities […]
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