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Dec 22, 2007 3:47 pm US/Eastern

School Gets One Year Extension On Shock Treatments

BOSTON (WBZ) ― State officials are allowing a controversial special education school to use electric shock treatments on students for another year.

But the state's Office of Health and Human Services said the extension for the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center comes with conditions.

The center must prove it uses shock treatments only for the most dangerous and self destructive behaviors. It also must show the treatments reduce those behaviors.

The decision comes after an August incident in which two students were wrongly given dozens of shocks on orders from a person posing as a supervisor during a prank call.

The incident in Stoughton renewed calls by school critics for the state to ban the shock treatments. But state officials said many parents defend the school and its methods.

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