Greg Miller worked for the Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts residential school for autistic children, from 2003-2006. In a recent letter to the editor at an area paper, Miller says he witnessed staff abusing students with electic shocks and other physical and emotional assault ( Read more... )

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/supervisor-held-in-death-of-autistic-man-in-staten-island-center/
www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/mes_finding_autistic_mans_deat.html

Erik Stanley has been arrested in connection with the death of 27-year-old Jawana Henry.

Henry died December 4, 2010, at the South Beach Psychiatric Center on Staten Island. ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8659378/Head-held-autistic-boy-against-wall.htmlRead more... )

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13548222

www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/31/abuse-at-leading-care-home

(Warning: both links contain graphic video and descriptions of abuse)

Four staffers at a care home for autistic and mentally disabled adults in England have been arrested on charges of abusing the residents.

The BBC's investigative reporting show Panorama  ( Read more... )

It's disturbing behind this cut. However, if you attend, work in, or have family in any K-12 school - regardless of your neurotype - you need to be aware of this.

**Some of the following applies to the United States only. Links and feedback on similar resources and procedures in other countries would be greatly appreciated.)**

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autismblogsdirectory.blogspot.com/2011/05/florida-families-against-restraint-and.html

Warning for graphic accounts of abuse.

Collection of media reports and testimonials from families about mistreatment of neurodiverse students in FL schools.  There have been court convictions in some of these cases; others are allegations still being addressed.

Most ( Read more... )

www.postcrescent.com/article/20110322/APC0101/103220423

Mary Berglund, a former teacher at Janet Berry Elementary School in Appleton, WI, has been charged with multiple counts of abusing her autistic and cognitively disabled students.

The alleged incidents involve five different students and occurred between 2009-2011.  Berglund is accused of ( Read more... )

Arkansas State Hospital is the subject of an official complaint to the Department of Justice, involving allegations that staff have been abusing and neglecting residential clients with developmental disability/mental illness co-diagnoses.

The official complaint alleges that ASH staff have been mistreating mentally ill autistic and other DD clients ( Read more... )