The JRC clients and students as well as JRC staff are involved in many volunteer and charitable activities throughout the year. The clients and students have hosted many bake sales which have raised several thousand dollars for various charities including the One Fund, a charity created following the Boston Marathon bombings to provide support for victims; to […]

The summer of 1981 was extremely sultry. It was so oppressive, outside activities for the students were cancelled much of the time. The small school building was located in Providence, RI. It housed five or so classrooms with only six students assigned to each one. There were just four group homes in nearby Massachusetts at the time […]

Many years ago I was presented with an opportunity to come join the Judge Rotenberg Center family as the resident chef. I have found it to be one of the most challenging and most rewarding times of my career as a chef. Our menu at the Judge Rotenberg Center is designed primarily around a vegan, […]

As the Referrals Director at JRC, I have the opportunity to encounter a number of agencies that deal with a very difficult population of developmentally and emotionally disabled individuals. These agencies include school districts, psychiatric hospitals, public and private mental health agencies, and criminal courts and affiliated agencies, as well as other service providers. Most […]

The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) literature is consistent with regard to the value of thorough and precise assessment of the functions of dangerous/disruptive behaviors. Such assessment (whether experimental functional analysis or descriptive functional behavioral assessment) can help to form the development of a behavior intervention plan that is better tailored to the individual’s clinical needs. […]