The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 3
by Shain Neumeier The trial over the restraint and electric shock of Andre McCollins at the Judge Rotenberg Center continued for a full day on 13 April, and included the…
April 18, 2012
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Julia Bascom’s Speech for ASAN Gala 2023
…now in the updated 504 regulations. We have continued to fight to #StopTheShock, and have called on the FDA to reissue the 2019 ban as quickly as possible. With CommunicationFIRST…
December 19, 2023
A Message From ASAN Executive Director Julia Bascom
…discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have continued to fight to#StopTheShock, and have called on the FDA to reissue the 2019 ban as quickly as possible. And when the Supreme…
September 28, 2023
🌸ASAN March Update 🌸
…if you were not able to attend, you can still watch our virtual vigil here. ASAN welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed ban on electric skin shock…
March 31, 2024
Action Alert: ABAI endorses torture, and we can’t let them rest.
…neither is torturing disabled people. #StopTheShock and stop platforming the JRC. #ABAIBoston #ABAI2022. #ABAIBoston should remove the Judge Rotenberg Center as a sponsor, vendor, and presenter. Here’s why: https://autisticadvocacy.org/stoptheshock/ #StopTheShock…
May 24, 2022
Tell the FDA To Ban Aversive Conditioning Devices and Stop the Judge Rotenberg Center
…ineffectiveness of electric shock and the myriad options for addressing problematic behavior other than electric shocking. There are no scientific, peer-reviewed studies that show any long-term efficacy of electric shock…
April 11, 2014
The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 4
by Shain Neumeier The defendants’ case in the ongoing medical malpractice trial over the longterm restraint and repeated electric shock of Andre McCollins at the Judge Rotenberg Center began on…
April 25, 2012
Find out how YOU can #StopTheShock!
…which would ban the use of electric shock devices as aversives. In December 2018, the FDA released their Unified Agenda, which said that they were working on finalizing the rule….
April 3, 2019
#StopTheShock at the Judge Rotenberg Center
People with disabilities are being tortured at the JRC by electric shock devices known as Gradual Electronic Decelerators (GED). The FDA has had a final rule to ban these devices…
April 11, 2018
July 2012 Newsletter
…of Andre McCollins being shocked, but also photographs of burn wounds caused by electric shock and copies of the behavioral recording sheets from JRC showing that these methods were being…
July 22, 2012