#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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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 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
Association for Behavior Analysis International Endorses Torture
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…
May 23, 2019
Action Alert: grassroots efforts to #StopTheShock
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…
July 23, 2021
🍂 ASAN November Update 🍂
…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…
November 30, 2022
Senate Fails to #StopTheShock
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…
September 28, 2022
ASAN Congratulates 2013 Champions of Change
…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…
July 25, 2013
🍂 ASAN September Update 🍂
…Rotenberg Center in their final FDA bill. Our community is outraged on behalf of the many disabled people who will continue to experience daily abuse as a result of this…
September 30, 2022
#StopTheShock Update: Now is the time to take action!
…ending the torturous practice of shocks as behavioral control, and towards closing the Judge Rotenberg Center. Your advocacy will make sure we #StopTheShock for good. Thank you for taking action….
June 13, 2022