Editor's note: The audio includes the sound of a teenager undergoing electric shock treatment. In the early 2000s, Cheryl McCollins enrolled her son Andre, who has autism and other developmental ...

After years of tacitly endorsing the only facility in the country known to use electric shocks to address behavior in those with developmental disabilities, a major behavior analysis organization is ...

Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...

United Nations calls use of skin shocks on students at Mass. school "torture." June 30, 2010— -- It may look like any leafy New England campus, but inside one Massachusetts school for special ...

Amnesty International called for a global legally binding treaty to regulate the production of electric shock equipment, in a report published on Thursday. The report documents the widespread practice ...

A Massachusetts school can continue using electric shock devices on its students with intellectual disabilities after the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on the ...

Pauline, 80, from Audenshaw, was one of hundreds of LGBT+ people subjected to Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) between 1965 and 1973 Pauline Collier was a typical working-class girl growing up ...

The effects of an electric shock vary depending on its source and severity. For example, shocks from light switches may be mild, while contact with industrial power sources can cause severe effects.