Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System

The Self-Injurious Behavior Inhibiting System (SIBIS) was invented in 1984 by Dr. Robert E. Fischell, Glen H. Fountain, and Charles M. Blackburn. The device utilizes aversive electric shock, intended to prevent the wearer of the apparatus from engaging in self injurious behavior to the head.https://patents.google.com/patent/US4440160A/en The Food and Drug Administration of the US banned the device in 2020 as part of a larger ban of aversive shock delivering devices, though the ban was first proposed in 2014 and again in 2016 due to findings that it was not adequately effective at its intended purpose and posed serious dangers of lasting physical and psychological damage.https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-proposes-ban-electrical-stimulation-devices-intended-treat-self-injurious-or-aggressive-behavior
It was used at the Judge Rotenberg Center from 1988 to 1990 before being replaced by a more powerful device, the Graduated Electronic Decelerator, invented by the founder of the center Matthew Israel. Mathew Israel once reported utilizing the device to shock at 12-year-old student in the program over 5,000 times in a single day.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/08/school-shock/
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