How To Treat Autistic Kids
Parents of some profoundly afflicted children like Janine have come to see BRI’s “aversive” therapy as their only hope. But the Massachusetts Office for Children (OFC) holds a different view: that BRI’s brand of treatment wouldn’t be tolerated toward animals or prisoners. In July 1985 a 22-year-old student died while wearing a helmet and mask emitting staticlike “white noise” as part of his aversive therapy.An autopsy could not establish that the treatment contributed to his death....