Packing Heat
Imagine if, whenever a child with autism had a tantrum, his parents stripped off his clothes, wrapped him first in cold, wet towels, then in dry blankets, and forced him to stay in this painful cocoon for 45 minutes until his body warmed up.It's not often that people in the autism field reach a consensus about anything. But this month, 18 of the field's heavyweights have declared that the so-called le packing treatment is unethical and could prevent these children "from accessing their basic human rights to health and education."Read more at...SFARI, February 2011.