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Students receive shocks to stop them frommutilating themselves or from hurting others,Israel says. The Boston branch of the FDA confirmsthat the electric shock is applied for thesepurposes. The FDA has been receiving informationfrom BRI on the use of electric shocks since...
Most patients come to BRI as a lastresort, Israel says. New York regulations requirethat a student fail out of ten programs before heor she is eligible for BRI...
...BRI's critics dispute this. StephenSchwartz of the Center for Public Representation,which has represented parents in claims againstBRI, alleges that some patients have not failedany previous programs and could function well atother institutions...
...addition to its use of aversives, BRI has anelaborate plan of incentives...
When patients start to hurt themselves, peopleoutside BRI generally let them stop whateverprovoked the episode, Israel says. At mostschools, this phenomenon occurs when a studentgets out of doing lessons by reverting to aself-abusive behavior which makes the teacher stopclass...