This page is dedicated to testimonials provided by the parents of autistic/PPD children (including adult children) who have been traumatized, injured or killed by the abusive or negligent use of dangerous behavior modification procedures.

"The mothers [caretakers/teachers/therapists] role in fostering harmonious and uninterrupted progress in affect [emotion] verbalization and desomatization lies predominantly in protecting the child from psychic traumatization. Possibly the most crucial and difficult aspect of mothering is permitting the child to bear increasingly intense affective tension, but stepping in and comforting the child before his emotions overwhelm him. Her empathy is her only guide [to prevent psychic trauma] p.96 ....the "final common path" of traumatization was [is] the development of overwhelming affects..." p. 9l (Henry Krystal, M.D., TRAUMA AND AFFECTS, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 33 (l978), p.9l,96)

In order to protect the anonymity of the following victimized families, we will not publish names with the website testimonials. Many of our families are or will be seeking justice in the courts.

Click on the bulletted items on the left to read these accounts.