…This is a direct result of your advocacy, whether that be meetings, calls, or emails, demanding that Congress take action to end torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center. For decades,…
…the Judge Rotenberg Center, the only place where the electric skin shock for behavior modification is still used, have intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism. The FDA has already banned…
For years, the disability community has worked to end torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center. While we work towards an FDA ban on the use of electric shocks, there is…
…work to pass it once again for a considerable portion of the disability population? It is because the judges that interpreted the narrow definition of disability that the legislation sought…
…letter that documents our specific policy asks. We signed onto a letter urging President Biden to nominate a judge or lawyer who has demonstrated an understanding of and commitment to…
…her crime. Although the jury in this case chose not to find Jude’s mother guilty of the more serious charge of murder, the judge’s choice to impose an eighteen-year sentence…
…judge the other person’s way of communicating to be wrong; rather, we don’t even comprehend the extent to which it may differ from our own. Modern society is becoming more…
…a child, and the person’s ability to understand the decision regarding sterilization. This format encourages doctors, guardians, and judges to think of these as “short-answer” questions when in fact they…
…to whether that state has any citizens who are residents of the Judge Rotenberg Center]. [We/I] therefore strongly urge the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, and the…
…social issues, and not feel judged. I felt at home, and no longer felt like an alien. That semester, I wrote an article about Asperger’s that appeared in the Baltimore…
