The Autistic Self Advocacy Network strongly condemns the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) for their decision to feature the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) at their 2019 annual conference. The…
…I am feeling pressured from our old ABA days that I’ll be judged for wanting Adam off the horse, and am distressed at my uncertainty at this point of what…
All of us were stunned and outraged when earlier this month, a federal appeals court overturned the FDA’s ban on electric shock devices used at the Judge Rotenberg Center. As…
…Report. For several years, Massachusetts has failed to pass a general and complete ban of this practice, which has allowed the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton to subject people with…
…aversive use such as that practiced at the Judge Rotenberg Center, which is at this point the only program in Massachusetts and in fact the world to use contingent electric…
…New York judge recognized that guardianship was an unnecessary deprivation of constitutional rights in situations where alternatives, such as supported decision-making, are available. In 2013, Jenny Hatch won her petition…
…decades of advocacy 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. Let’s carry…
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 Rotenberg Center in their final…
…help close the Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts. She spoke of the atrocities that occur within those walls, the deaths of individuals who were placed in the JRC, and how…
…where she does not want to be, cut off from her friends, work, and freedoms, while a legal battle has raged over her guardianship. On August 2, 2013, Judge David…
