1-14-08 Blogging Against Aversives

The Massachusetts legislature is hearing 4 bills specifically against JRC, a controversial facility that uses aversive therapy to treat autism and much lesser antisocial behavior.

1-14-08 Blogging Against Aversives is a site that have list of bloggers who are writing about the issue. Other states New York have created similar "Aversives Policy". For years, governments are trying to use aversive devices, such as electroshock, pepper spray and cold-water treatments, on persons with mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy and other severe developmental disabilities.

"These procedures are used unjustly and unnecessarily in an attempt to change the behavior of people with autism and other developmental disabilities." Nancy Weiss, co-founder and co-director of the National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities

For more information about this, click on Restraints and Aversives

Last sunday, I did a blog on Disabilities issues within Politics and Christianity about the disability rights movements are still educating people about the structural and attitudinal barriers in the United States and similar industrialized countries that are the fundamental cause for the discrimination and oppression faced by disabled people.

Those who think they know it all advising for "aversive devices" really don't know about disabilities at all. We STILL have not been able to change people's attitudes towards people with disabilities.

On the topic of "DisabilitY Rights Movements", click on A CHRONOLOGY OF THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENTS One example is this: In 1965, Congress establishes the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York