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@Oliver Schick
Behaviourism has a lot to answer for. The only good thing that can be said about this 'school' is that it appears to be the only one of its kind.
The thinking behind the kind of consequentialism involved is confused in the extreme, but it is essentially a cost argument. The fool who runs the school may claim the effectiveness of his 'treatment', but ultimately, the sales pitch to government will run along the lines of cost. I don't know how much a less aggressive approach to the students would cost, but I'm sure it would be higher.
Why? The problem is that there are a lot of conditions that are very poorly understood. The portmanteau diagnosis of 'autism/autistic spectrum disorder' is among them. Many conditions are highly individual, unique sets of problems that even if they were to be found in someone else would only ever be experienced by a handful of people. Not only would it be unlikely that such knowledge would be found, but it would also be unlikely for it to easily become widespread, and indeed for the requisite understanding to develop.
Now suppose you come along with something that basically 'works' (i.e., causes everyone involved who's supposed to be 'responsible' to be able to stop worrying) for a wide range of people with poorly understood conditions. You just subdue them and cause them to obey. The 'problem' remains completely unsolved, the causes misunderstood, and the symptoms and subjects clobbered into submission. If you're a politician, that's what you go for. There's a lot more to say about the politics behind disability.