🌸ASAN March Update 🌸
…if you were not able to attend, you can still watch our virtual vigil here. ASAN welcomes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed ban on electric skin shock…
March 31, 2024
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Action Alert: ABAI endorses torture, and we can’t let them rest.
…neither is torturing disabled people. #StopTheShock and stop platforming the JRC. #ABAIBoston #ABAI2022. #ABAIBoston should remove the Judge Rotenberg Center as a sponsor, vendor, and presenter. Here’s why: https://autisticadvocacy.org/stoptheshock/ #StopTheShock…
May 24, 2022
Tell the FDA To Ban Aversive Conditioning Devices and Stop the Judge Rotenberg Center
…ineffectiveness of electric shock and the myriad options for addressing problematic behavior other than electric shocking. There are no scientific, peer-reviewed studies that show any long-term efficacy of electric shock…
April 11, 2014
The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part 4
by Shain Neumeier The defendants’ case in the ongoing medical malpractice trial over the longterm restraint and repeated electric shock of Andre McCollins at the Judge Rotenberg Center began on…
April 25, 2012
Find out how YOU can #StopTheShock!
…which would ban the use of electric shock devices as aversives. In December 2018, the FDA released their Unified Agenda, which said that they were working on finalizing the rule….
April 3, 2019
#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
July 2012 Newsletter
…of Andre McCollins being shocked, but also photographs of burn wounds caused by electric shock and copies of the behavioral recording sheets from JRC showing that these methods were being…
July 22, 2012
The Judge Rotenberg Center on Trial, Part Two
…being restrained and repeatedly shocked over the course of 25 October 2002, attempting to show that JRC staff and directors had not been negligent in their decisions and actions. In…
April 17, 2012
Contacting the FDA
Thank you for your interest in letting the FDA know that they need to #StoptheShock! The FDA agency in charge of the ban on electric shock devices is called the…
March 13, 2019
A Letter of Support for Legislation Banning Electric Stimulation Devices
…is torture.” The undersigned organizations oppose the use of electro-shock devices on persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism. As the FDA found, use of these devices “present[s] a…
July 14, 2022