A Message From ASAN Executive Director Julia Bascom
…discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have continued to fight to#StopTheShock, and have called on the FDA to reissue the 2019 ban as quickly as possible. And when the Supreme…
…discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have continued to fight to#StopTheShock, and have called on the FDA to reissue the 2019 ban as quickly as possible. And when the Supreme…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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….
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…
…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…
…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…
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…