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Survivors and clinicians press legislature to ban aversive therapies; opponents warn licensing is insufficient
Summary
Hundreds of pages of testimony and multiple survivors described painful electric shocks and other aversive practices at the Judge Rotenberg Center, urging passage of H245 to ban aversives; opponents warned licensure proposals (H240) would merely formalize harmful practices.
An extended panel of survivors, clinicians, disability‑rights advocates and family members told the committee that painful aversive procedures — including electric skin shocks used at the Judge Rotenberg Center — constitute abuse and should be prohibited by statute.
Survivors gave detailed first‑hand accounts. Jen Masumba, who testified she spent seven years at the Judge Rotenberg…
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