sentences:  The center stated that the GEDs were only employed after positive behavioral intervention had not been proven to alleviate violent, self-injurious behaviors.By contrast, a 2006 report by the New York State Education Department found that JRC's use of aversives took place without a significant positive behavioral support program, and that students were not provided positive behavioral supports.The report also found that the GEDs were used when there was no threat of serious physical harm or injury, including failing to follow directions, failing to be neat, wrapping one's foot around the leg of a chair, slouching in a chair, "nagging", stopping work for more than 10 seconds, and other similar acts of noncompliance.