#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
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Remarks from Zoe Gross at Disability Day of Mourning 2019
…courtrooms with sympathy and praise for murderers. Ben Clarence. Max Clarence. Olivia Clarence. When judges tell perpetrators that the years they spent caring for their child constituted a sort of…
March 28, 2019
Welcome to the Rest of International Autism Acceptance Year!
…multiple news reports of bullying incidents, and the hearings and eventual settlement of a case against the Judge Rotenberg Center. Autism has recently been compared to the Oklahoma City bombing…
May 7, 2012
ASAN Letter to FDA on Banning Electric Shock Devices
…IL Native American Disability Law Center, Inc. Farmington NM Neighbours, Inc Highland Park NJ NorthStar Supported Living Services, Inc. Placerville CA Not Dead Yet Rochester NY Occupy the Judge Rotenberg…
April 23, 2018
ASAN Denounces Court Ruling on Electric Skin Shock
…only used at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), an institution in Massachusetts. The disability community has fought for decades against the use of skin shocks on our people. Last year,…
July 6, 2021
ASAN meets with FDA to #StopTheShock
…we shared our community’s concerns regarding the use of electric shock torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center and discussed next steps with FDA staff. ASAN staff, along with fellow disability…
June 5, 2018
Cassandra’s Impact on Autistic Victims of Domestic Violence
…or parents.” To the extent this baseless prejudice is given credence by family law judges and social workers, it endangers the basic human right to marry and raise children. I…
May 6, 2009
Stirring Up Action: The Winds of Disability
…with disbelief and/or skepticism when we do not fit a mold that is often not created by us in the first place? Why are we often judged with such a…
November 11, 2009
ASAN, 243 Other Orgs Urge FDA to #StopTheShock
…Judge Rotenberg Center Oklahoma Community-based Providers, Inc. Ollibean Options in Community Living, Inc. Orange Grove Center Oregon Resource Association (ORA) Oregon Supported Living Program Parent 2 Parent USA Parents of…
March 6, 2019
ASAN Joins ACLU Brief in Britney Spears Conservatorship Case
…rights. We believe that people under guardianship or conservatorship are better served when they – and not their guardians, conservators, or the judges overseeing their case – decide who represents…
July 13, 2021