Action Alert: Call Now to #StopTheShock!
…the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from banning the electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. The subcommittee passed the bill. The next committee to vote on the…
June 18, 2024
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ASAN Letter to FDA on Banning Electric Shock Devices
…Center– MA Boston MA Disability Policy Consortium Malden MA Disability Power & Pride Washington DC DQIA Disabled Queers in ACTION! Washington DC Disability Rights Center Rhododendron OR Disability Rights Center…
April 23, 2018
January 2013 Newsletter
…Drafts Letter Regarding Funding for the Judge Rotenberg Center The Judge Rotenberg Center has been the rightful target of fierce controversy and advocacy efforts to close the facility because of…
January 29, 2013
School Climate: How People with Disabilities Are Harmed In School and How We Can Fight Back
…by only one place – the Judge Rotenberg Center. You can learn more about ASAN’s campaign to get rid of it by reading #StopTheShock: The Judge Rotenberg Center, Torture, and…
June 25, 2020
2014 Joint Letter to the Sponsors of Autism Speaks
…Speaks has promoted the Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts facility under Department of Justice and FDA investigation for the use of painful electric shock against its students. The Judge Rotenberg…
January 6, 2014
ABAI Finally Opposes the Use of Electric Shocks at the JRC
…from the autistic community and our allies, bringing attention to ABAI’s continued support of the Judge Rotenberg Center and its use of electric shock torture. For years, ABAI has allowed…
November 16, 2022
ASAN Applauds the House for Passing a Bill To #StopTheShock
…shock devices at the Judge Rotenberg Center. For decades, disabled advocates have fought to end the use of electric shocks at the JRC. The inclusion of the ban language in…
June 13, 2022
ASAN Testimony to the Neurological Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee of the FDA
…the seven months after the ban, the Judge Rotenberg Center – the only facility where these devices are used – admitted 28 new students and did not require the use…
April 24, 2014
ACTION ALERT: Tell the FDA: Ban Electric Shock Torture of People with Disabilities
…the only facility known to use the devices in the United States, the Judge Rotenberg Center, showing that these devices have frequently been used to abuse Judge Rotenberg Center residents….
June 20, 2016
#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