NY Racial Inequality in Disabilities Care
NY state policies promote racial disparities in autism and other disabilities by refusing to approve schools, not increasing funding for the state approved schools forcing parents whose children have a lot of needs to either pay for school, legal and expert witness expenses and wait two to three years for legal and tuition reimbursement, send a child far away to a residential program or forego necessary care.
Racial Disparities in the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
New Analysis of 173 Individuals Supporting Skin-shock Treatment for Dangerous Behaviors
This article, "Response patterns for individuals receiving contingent skin shock aversion intervention to treat violent self-injurious and assaultive behaviours," shows how skin shock can be partially or completely faded and take people off medications with life-threatening side effects which almost never can be faded.
Pregnant NYC Department of Education and so called “advocates”
I am still waiting for Talia’s replacement ipad ordered on August 23rd. I am also still waiting for my impartial hearing reimbursement from 2019-2020 school year. If I hadn’t paid for school last year, Talia would not have any school to go to. In fact many years the school district offered no school because places just kept rejecting her due to her behaviors. After the Department of Education mislead me for seven months that they would negotiate a settlement, they informed my lawyer I had to go to hearing. I would have compromised on a settlement because impartial hearings are extremely stressful. I finally had my hearing decision which I won on December 28th and I still have not received a dime. To all those self-appointed advocates who are anti Judge Rotenberg Center, they do nothing for children who have no schools or are stuck in hospitals for months and even years living in chemical prisons due to their behaviors. They talk about other effective treatments, but they can’t produce even one research study of an alternative treatment that completely stops all dangerous behaviors in all subjects. In fact, if such a treatment did exist, then I’m sure these individuals would not be spending a significant portion of their lives in hospitals. Furthermore, if these advocates really cared, they would help finance tuition for parents or advocate to NY state to approve these not state approved schools for children whose parents can’t afford non state approved schools when school districts offer them nothing.
A Staff Poisoned My Brother with Autism Repeatedly
My brother was having regular bouts of running to the toilet. He lives at a New York Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) certified residence. Three days ago, a staff informed my mother a disgruntled employee was intentionally giving my brother high doses of unprescribed laxatives. The staff did state my brother was having a lot of unexplained diarrhea but did not state for how long. They informed my mother the staff was fired but will not provide the staff’s name but admitted the staff had been there for years. We do not know how long the staff was engaging in this behavior and will probably never know. This might have caused permanent damage to his digestive system or increased his risk for cancer. The agency refuses to disclose the name of the staff in order for us to hold him accountable for his actions. He should be arrested. Supposedly, the NY Justice Center is “investigating.” When the Justice Center was first established, Governor Cuomo appointed Jeff Wise as the executive director. Jeff Wise previously was hired by agencies to lobby against Johnathon’s law, a law to provide families with copies of incident reports. The “human rights” self-appointed advocates who are anti-Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) and anti-cameras are partially responsible for the abuse epidemic of individuals with developmental disabilities by not giving people a voice (a video recording) who unfortunately often cannot speak up for themselves. When people know they are being filmed or even watched remotely as at JRC, they are much less likely to break rules. People are more compliant with stopping at red lights or not going over the speed limit when there is a camera. My brother is a victim of medication abuse, an abuse no one even talks about.