A Massachusetts school for individuals with severe behavioral issues and intellectual disabilities can continue to use electric shock devices to stop students from harming themselves and others, a ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, state Rep. Danielle Gregoire, D-Marlborough, is renewing her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock ...

Electrical shock devices meant to interrupt self-injurious or aggressive behavior have been banned by federal officials in a rare move. The only facility known to use these devices in the US is the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed banning electrical stimulation devices designed to reduce self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The FDA cited these devices as posing an ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims the shock devices used at a Massachusetts school are unreasonably harmful, and have proposed banning the devices. But new federal legislation could prevent ...

After years of litigation, the FDA on Thursday issued a ban on Electrical Stimulation Devices (ESDs) — devices that were used to issue electrical shocks to the wearer in the hopes of changing behavior ...

With a sign in hand, a 16-year-old autistic Massachusetts resident stood along a busy Canton road just outside a facility still using electric shock devices on people like him. “This is a cause I care ...