April 2006:
To whom it may concern;
We are parents, know it is our right to have a say in the treatment of our children and this has been monitored and continues to be monitored by Bristol County Family Court.
We are extremely disturbed by the false and misleading information going on at this time about the Judge Rotenberg Center . We have known Dr. Israel for many years. His staff, the school, doctors and nurses have always given quality care all the time to all the residents of the Judge Rotenberg Center and continues to do so.
The press, television, the media have continuous problem getting their facts straight. The have a continuous problem in that they are based in their reporting. Those who report and “jump” out of their chair when administered GED, would have went through the ceiling if they ever saw their own autistic relative put their head through a wall or window. Now, that would really be something to Jump up about and cry pain!
Before our child entered the Judge Rotenberg Center, this is where we tried to find placement all our attempts were unsuccessful. Princeton Child Development Center Day School, Eden Institute, Bancroft School, Ben Haves School, Audair School, Emma Pendleton Bradley, Devereaux School, Summit School, Wordsworth Academy, Beamont School, Casreal Institute, Holoy Child Care & Development Center, National Children’s Rehabilitation Center, Terry Children’s Psychiatric Center, Albany Home for Children, Kings Park Development Center, Crane Hill Children’s Services, Sagamore Children’s Center, Neward Development Center, Henry Ittleson Center for Child Research, Mt. Scott Institute, Forbush Children’s Center, The Sheppards Enoch Pratt Hospital, Linwood Children Center, Children’s Residential Services, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Child Guidance Clinic, Yale Psychiatric Institute, Gaebles Children’s Unit, Brandon School, May Institute, League School of Boston, Enrich Lindemann Mental Health Center, McLean Hospital, Elwyn Institute. Here around home, our Children’s as in the Barley Free School, Nursery school in a summer camp for handicapped children, in a Kindergarten School for one day, they did not want our child back in school in a psychiatric Hospital for over three years where our chid was heavily drugged with Thorazine Valium, Haldol, Mellanl, Ritalin all these places did not want our child and the Psychiatric Hospital made the situation worse than ever. After the Psychiatric hospital, our child entered Dr. Israels School.
I don’t have to explain any further how we struggled to find a placement for our child. The above listing of our efforts is self evident to anyone reading it. When we got our child out of the hospital, it was at a time when our child was in danger of killing himself in the psychiatric hospital. As a result of the drugs taken there, our child has seizures, and suffers from other physical problems. These have come from heavy drug medications and being self abusive. We have seen improvement in our child though physical problems continue. If it wasn’t for the Judge Rotenberg Center our child would have died by age 11.
No parent wants to go through what the Judge Rotenberg Center parents went through before finding JRC residential placement. We have autistic, developmentally disabled children with severe behavior problems, and will do whatever we can to find the right placement for our child. All the parents will deal with the circumstances in their life as best as they can and with the most zeal on their part.
Thank you,
The Bognars of New Jersery