Action Alert: Massachusetts residents, help Stop The Shock!
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…
May 9, 2023
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NFB Disability Law Symposium Keynote from ASAN President Ari Ne’eman
…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…
May 8, 2009
💖ASAN February Update 💖
…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…
February 25, 2022
ASAN Statement on Sentencing in Jude Mirra’s Murder
…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…
June 1, 2015
Putting Words to Expectations
…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…
April 5, 2012
ASAN Tells WA State: No Sterilization Forms!
…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…
February 1, 2018
Template Letter to FDA
…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…
March 15, 2019
Normal Is Just A Setting On A Washing Machine
…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…
April 7, 2007
DJ Savarese’s Speech for ASAN Gala 2018
…16 judges unanimously determined that our stories matter. And they got it. They really got it. And most importantly, winning this award tonight assures me that I didn’t sell out…
November 28, 2018
Julia Bascom’s Speech at ASAN Gala 2018
…It is still legal to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage. The Judge Rotenberg Center is still open and still torturing disabled children. Some of these children aren’t…
December 5, 2018