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  • noun Plural form of aversive.

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Examples

  • Now, New York State is trying to regulate the use of tactics like electric shock, food deprivation, sleep deprivation and other "aversives" AKA punishments in schools to which it sends emotionally and learning disabled children.

    Maia Szalavitz: Ban Aversive "Therapies" for Kids Now 2008

  • For example, meaningful efforts to curb and ultimately end aversives, restraint and seclusion would stand to drastically improve the lives of all Autistic people.

    Seth Mnookin: Autism Roundtable: Cross-Disability Solidarity, Goals for the Future, and What it Means to "Fit in" Seth Mnookin 2012

  • For example, meaningful efforts to curb and ultimately end aversives, restraint and seclusion would stand to drastically improve the lives of all Autistic people.

    Seth Mnookin: Autism Roundtable: Cross-Disability Solidarity, Goals for the Future, and What it Means to "Fit in" Seth Mnookin 2012

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Archive 2009-01-01 Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Archive 2009-03-01 Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Friday Music: Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Winter at the Gimp Compound Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Archive 2009-04-01 Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall Kay Olson 2009

  • Ashley Treatment assisted suicide autism aversives belief and religion best of blind carnival charity children choice consciousness crip culture deaf developmental disability disability fiction disability studies dwarf economics eugenics euthanasia

    Archive 2009-02-01 Kay Olson 2009

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