#1141 - Jan Nisbet

Jan Nisbet is professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, where she served for ten years as the senior vice provost for research. Before assuming that position, she was the founding director of the Institute on Disability and professor in the Department of Education. She has been principal investigator on many state- and nationally-funded projects related to children and adults with disabilities. Jan's book Pain and Shock in America: Politics, Advocacy, and the Controversial Treatment of People with Disabilities written with past guest Nancy Weiss. The first book to be written on the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of painful interventions to control the behavior of children and adults with disabilities.