🪐ASAN May Update 🪐
…out what we’ve been working on this month and the opportunities ahead! This month, we had the opportunity to #StopTheShock at the Judge Rotenberg Center for good! The Food and…
May 31, 2024
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Learn About Upcoming, Proposed, and Final Federal Rules for Spring 2024
…electrical stimulation devices for self-injurious or aggressive behaviors. These devices are used to give people painful shocks to make them change their behavior. These devices hurt disabled people and the…
April 30, 2024
Call for Action to End the Judge Rotenberg Center and Aversives
…Justice; the House Committee on Education & Labor; Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; and Physicians for Human Rights take action to put an end to the use of electric shock,…
October 12, 2009
Contacting your Members of Congress
Thank you for your interest in asking your members of Congress to urge the FDA to #StoptheShock! If you live in the United States, you have 3 members of Congress:…
March 18, 2019
🍂 ASAN November Update 🍂
…shocks for behavior modification. As of earlier this month, “[ABAI] strongly oppose[s] the use of contingent electric skin shock (CESS) under any condition.” This is the result of years and…
November 30, 2022
Action Alerts
…in segregated workplaces. This is called subminimum wage, and it most commonly happens in sheltered workshops. It is discrimination,… Read More » Action Alert: URGENT #StopTheShock Phone Action — Call…
February 27, 2017
ASAN Statement on DC Circuit’s Denial of Rehearing in Judge Rotenberg Center Case
…banned some uses of shock devices but not others. The FDA said that shocks could not be used on disabled people, but that devices people chose to use to stop…
December 6, 2021
🌈 ASAN June Update 🌈
…(HR 7667) with a provision that would ban the use of the electric skin shock devices at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Disabled advocates have fought to end electric shock torture…
June 30, 2022
Action August
…Read on to learn about all of the opportunities for advocacy during Action August. #StopTheShock All of us were stunned and outraged when a federal appeals court overturned the FDA’s…
July 30, 2021
Your voice is needed for Action August!
…Read on to learn about all of the opportunities for advocacy during Action August. #StopTheShock All of us were stunned and outraged when a federal appeals court overturned the FDA’s…
August 2, 2021