…provider that utilizes aversive interventions. Aversives are defined as the use of pain or unpleasant stimuli as a means of modifying behavior, and may include contingent electric shock, ammonia spray,…
…submitted comments for this April meeting updating IACC about the #StopTheShock efforts and encouraging them to take an active role in that and in guiding the implementation of the HCBS…
…“Robert MacNeil’s comments last night displayed a level of ignorance that is shocking to hear for a professional journalist,” stated Ari Ne’eman, President of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN),…
…people with developmental disabilities, their families, and professionals working with them. As an organization devoted to the well-being of autistic people and those with other developmental disabilities, we express shock…
…using electric shocks on disabled people. ASAN calls on the FDA to do whatever it takes to reinstate a ban by immediately reintroducing a new rule that would address the…
…an important battle this month. ASAN is heartbroken and furious that the United States Senate has failed to ban the use of the electric shock devices used at the Judge…
…Center, which uses contingent electric shock to modify the behavior of disabled students and has been condemned by the United Nation’s special rapporteur on torture, is listed as both a…
…disabilities and rejected an offer of disability services as an alternative to incarceration. Instead, he was punished in the criminal justice system with long periods of solitary confinement, Taser shocks,…
…of aggression against somebody who cannot respond or defend themselves,” a shocked French psychiatrist told The Lancet medical journal, asking to remain nameless. She said the parents could be placed…
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