tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post708969593390115603..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: A Trip to the ClinicDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-19142838853066866432013-02-16T12:20:40.462-05:002013-02-16T12:20:40.462-05:00Sorry to be off topic, but I wanted to share some ...Sorry to be off topic, but I wanted to share some news for the advocates and activists in your readership:<br /><br />Some of you may know that, for many years, the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) for students with disabilities in Massachusetts, USA, has been using electro shock devices as a form of so-called "treatment". In practice, this is torture. We are at an important turning point in the long battle to end the use of these devices, but we need both individuals and organizations to write letters to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the next few days to ask them to stop the use of these devices at the center.<br /><br />Learn more about the use of these devices (and why they count as torture, not treatment), and how your letters to the FDA can help at <a href="http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/letters-to-fda-needed-end-electric-shock-at-judge-rotenberg/" rel="nofollow">http://reunifygally.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/letters-to-fda-needed-end-electric-shock-at-judge-rotenberg/</a> The students subjected to this torture have a range of disabilities including autism, intellectual disabilities, etc. Usually the excuse used to inflict these devices on the student is that they have severe self-injurious behaviors. But this firstly ignores the many successful approaches that have been used elsewhere to reduce self injury without the use of pain and secondly ignores that, once JRC has permission to use the electric devices on a student, they then typically move on to use the device as punishment for many other "behaviors" such as asking to go to the bathroom, or acting upset because another student is in pain from electro shock.<br /><br />Write your letters. Then please help spread the word about this call for action to your networks. Thank you.Andrea S.http://gdrl.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-37164474095826112872013-02-16T06:53:26.956-05:002013-02-16T06:53:26.956-05:00There's a line from the psychedelic band, Vani...There's a line from the psychedelic band, Vanilla Fudge, something like, "I wish I could see what my eyes see." Just finished reading a Helen Keller book, The Story of my Life, I was telling Dave about it actually. The poetic sensibility there is really amazing. She describes in fairly deep aesthetic terms, I would say, what it feels like to know the world so intensely through the perception of touch. She studied Greek, Latin, German and French and read everything she could get her hands on, no pun intended. Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-41252662721608237362013-02-16T05:12:43.716-05:002013-02-16T05:12:43.716-05:00If you love your job and what you do then you will...If you love your job and what you do then you will want to know how you can help. The people who know their subject can tell you simply what they mean without baffling you. <br />Trouble is I'd keep going back as I would have enjoyed the experience!Jayne Waleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14453464335047666502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-61276820541027452372013-02-16T03:20:50.199-05:002013-02-16T03:20:50.199-05:00Dave, this is really beautiful. I think this is yo...Dave, this is really beautiful. I think this is your sweet spot. You know how it feels when everything is working together at the same time and when you feel most at home writing, how you feel as if you really said what you set out to? I think this is it. Remember what it felt like to write this and I think you can come back to that point anytime. That's what I try to do and I really count on finding such waypoints, so I thought I would ask if this is how it felt to write this particular text. Again, I think it's beautiful.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-59528245231894087852013-02-16T00:57:10.836-05:002013-02-16T00:57:10.836-05:00One of my favorite traits in a person is one who i...One of my favorite traits in a person is one who is intellectual, but humble enough to speak on an equal plain to others. It really aggravates me to see people who are intellectual in speech, while obviously getting satisfaction out of using words above another persons head. Great post!amber yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057447182235000514noreply@blogger.com