Long Island Therapeutic Boarding School's Shock Therapy Treatments Stir Controversy

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She saw the therapeutic boarding school's glittering "reward store," adorned with chandeliers, twinkling lights and a pool table. She saw the treadmills and StairMasters filling the exercise room. She heard how students can earn off-campus trips to the beach and the movies.

But the thing that left the biggest impression on her was the shock treatment.

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Long Island Therapeutic Boarding School's Shock Therapy Treatments Stir Controversy

She saw children's faces as shocks were sent through devices on their backs into electrodes on their skin, from battery-powered remote controls called "sleds."

"A little boy was getting his battery changed and cringed when they picked up his sled," Spino said. "The teacher let the boy know he was OK and that they were just changing the battery.

"To make sure the battery worked," she added, "he zapped the k...

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