January 2013 Newsletter
…Drafts Letter Regarding Funding for the Judge Rotenberg Center The Judge Rotenberg Center has been the rightful target of fierce controversy and advocacy efforts to close the facility because of…
January 29, 2013
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School Climate: How People with Disabilities Are Harmed In School and How We Can Fight Back
…by only one place – the Judge Rotenberg Center. You can learn more about ASAN’s campaign to get rid of it by reading #StopTheShock: The Judge Rotenberg Center, Torture, and…
June 25, 2020
2014 Joint Letter to the Sponsors of Autism Speaks
…Speaks has promoted the Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts facility under Department of Justice and FDA investigation for the use of painful electric shock against its students. The Judge Rotenberg…
January 6, 2014
ABAI Finally Opposes the Use of Electric Shocks at the JRC
…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. For years, ABAI has allowed…
November 16, 2022
ASAN Applauds the House for Passing a Bill To #StopTheShock
…shock devices at the Judge Rotenberg Center. For decades, disabled advocates have fought to end the use of electric shocks at the JRC. The inclusion of the ban language in…
June 13, 2022
ASAN Testimony to the Neurological Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee of the FDA
…the seven months after the ban, the Judge Rotenberg Center – the only facility where these devices are used – admitted 28 new students and did not require the use…
April 24, 2014
ACTION ALERT: Tell the FDA: Ban Electric Shock Torture of People with Disabilities
…the only facility known to use the devices in the United States, the Judge Rotenberg Center, showing that these devices have frequently been used to abuse Judge Rotenberg Center residents….
June 20, 2016
#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
ASAN Letter to FDA Calling for Ban on Electric Skin Shock Devices
…year’s hearing. Over the past year, the only institution in the nation known to use contingent electric shock as “treatment,” the Judge Rotenberg Center, continues to use this harmful form…
June 4, 2015
May 2012 Newsletter
…by mainstream organizations is a strong commitment to the principles of neurodiversity, these efforts may herald a step in the right direction. Advocacy Updates Judge Rotenberg Center Trial A medical…
May 18, 2012