Use of Skin-Shock at the Judge Rotenberg Center

Use of Skin-Shock at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center (JRC)

JRC Student Comments

November 17, 2001

To whom it may concern
240 Turnpike St.
Canton, MA 02021

Subject: Thank you for all of the help

To whom it may concern:

I would like to give everyone in the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center a great big thank you for everything that have done for me. If it weren't for some of the staff I probably wouldn't have been able to get here at the Turnpike residence but most of the staff has been an excellent success in my life. I entered the Judge Rotenberg Center Wednesday, August 23, 2000. I came in this program on seventeen different types of meds and the nurses had a doctor come and talk to me to see if they were doing anything or even they were needed. When the doctor came he had said that there was no need for me to be on so much medication. Most of the meds were supposed to be used to relax me, but they made me tired instead of relaxed. I used to want to sleep all day and do nothing. But right now all I really want to do is things such as academics and extra chores. When I first came here I didn't want to do any of these things for my self instead of staff or anyone else doing the things that I am supposed to do for myself. When I started off in the Judge Rotenberg Center I was in restraint at least fifteen times a day. Before I started my treatment at JRC I had fourteen hundred aggressions and a lot of HDB's (Health Dangerous Behaviors). Now that I had something that will help me control my aggressions I am able to either use my words and my actions. My actions used to speak louder than my words can. But since I have been on my treatment there has been a serious decrease in all my behaviors. But when I first entered this program I was at a higher crisis house due to my behaviors. I had tried my best to not have behaviors. I feel that this program has done an awful lot to help me. I have been through a lot and I have been trying to deal with all my anger in an appropriate manner not a negative manner. I have had to deal with a lot of changes made in either the residence or even the school. I have had at least five different case managers and they all have helped me in the same way and the same manner. I feel that all of the higher up staff are also a great big success in my time at the Judge Rotenberg Education Center. I have also had two great clinicians in my time so far here at the Judge Rotenberg Center. I have really appreciated everything that has been done for me at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center.

Thank you very much for all the help and the patience that all of the staff has had with me!