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Please stop scrolling and please take 26 seconds to watch this video (TW: Abuse of disabled people):

(Reposted by kind permission of @/auteach on TikTok).

On July 6th, a federal court overturned an FDA ban on the use of electroshock devices on autistic people, which the United Nations recognises as torture.

This blog will be dedicated to the #StopTheShock campaign and will include survivors' stories and action points to help fight this decision and stop the torture of autistic people.

For a current list of action points, head over to the AuTeach website. PLEASE REBLOG and spread the word, even if you are not autistic, and follow this blog for updates.

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For years, the disability community has put in the work to close the Judge Rotenberg Center. While much of our focus has been on the national level, there is now critical state-level legislation that would affect the Judge Rotenberg Center. The New York state legislature is introducing a bill that…

#StopTheShock call to action: We need New York residents to call your State Senators and voice support for Andre’s Law, which would prevent New York residents from being sent to the JRC! Please share this with any resident of New York and make some calls!

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The issue briefs in this series explore four important areas of reproductive health, rights, and justice for people with disabilities: access to abortion, access to contraception, healthy sexuality and sex education, and the right to parent.

Systemic ableism and racism intersect to create barriers to reproductive rights in health care, education, and the child welfare system. Learn more in our new reports, created with the National Partnership for Women & Families: nationalpartnership.org/ReproandDisability

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A cattle prod is a handheld device used to make cows move in the direction you want by applying relatively high voltage, low current electric shock. It...

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“Children should not continue to suffer because of bureaucratic equivocation. Electric shock must end. The FDA was right.”

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People with disabilities live better lives when we are included in our local communities. That’s just as true when it comes to work as it is for education and housing. With the right supports, people with all kinds of disabilities and support needs can have good jobs that pay us well — but too many

The Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) would end the discriminatory practice of subminimum wage, and give states and service providers the resources they need to create better employment support programs. Learn more here.

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Restraint and seclusion can be life-threatening and are often incredibly traumatic. They are disproportionately used on students with disabilities and students of color. The Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA) would ban almost all kinds of restraint and all kinds of seclusion across all 50 states,

Disabled students deserve better than restraint and seclusion, and passing KASSA is an important step forward that our community wants and needs. Tell Congress to act now by contacting your members of Congress with our easy-to-use email tool.

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BY POPULAR DEMAND - This will continue the discussion started in our July 13 webinar! All the panelists have agreed to appear again to try to answer all your burning questions about the implications of guardianships/conservatorships and alternative options for adults who need and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)!

Register now for a webinar about alternatives to guardianship for AAC users on August 19th at 3pm Eastern.

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This month is Action August! There are so many important issues you can take action on this month, and best of all—you don’t have to make a single phone call! Read on to learn about all of the opportunities for advocacy during Action August. #StopTheShock All of us were stunned and outra

#WeActAugust is the time to let your members of Congress know you are watching as they take important steps to recognize our rights and expand our rights! Here’s how you can take action this month: https://autisticadvocacy.org/action-august/

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We are proud and excited to announce the official launch of a fund for direct support, mutual aid, and reparations by/for autistic people of color! We provide microgrants of up to $500 to community members.

Support community reparations for Autistic People of Color through the Autistic People of Color Fund!

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#StopTheShock needs your support again!

If you want to help the #StopTheShock campaign and end the torture of disabled people at the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, MA, this is how. If you are in the US you can now sign an open letter to US Congress by following the link below. The letter calls for an amendment to the Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA) which would prohibit the use of aversives on disabled students, including the Graduated Electronic Decelerator (GED) which is the device used at the JRC to administer painful electric shocks for behaviours such as talking out of turn, stimming or even for taking too long to remove a coat.

https://resist.bot/petitions/PWEXKJ

Once you follow the link it’s as simple as sending a text to the number shown. You can also print the page with the QR code and put it up on bulletin boards to raise awareness!

If you are not living in the US there are other ways to help, see this previous post, the AuTeach website and the rest of this blog for details. Share this message far and wide, and hopefully we can make a difference to the students at the JRC. Thank you.

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Congress should invest in state efforts to move away from caring for people in institutions and large group homes.

“States can and should shift their services for people with disabilities away from institutions and other congregate facilities and toward more individualized services. And Congress is right to help, with greater investments in community-based support.”

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This is an interesting read. Content warning for outdated diagnoses of learning disabilities and ableist language as well as discussion of eugenics and institutionalization of disabled people. One quote in particular that struck me was:

A third of people with developmental disabilities in Mississippi reside in large facilities, as do 25% in Arkansas and 14% in Illinois, while less than 1% in Vermont, Maryland and Oregon do. Most services in these latter states are provided in more individualized settings.

Such disparities cannot be explained by severity of impairment. People with developmental disabilities are not more disabled in Illinois, Arkansas or Mississippi than they are in Oregon, Vermont or Maryland. The differences result from policy choices. Some states help people with disabilities live life on their own terms, and others offer intensive services only in congregate facilities.

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The most financially vulnerable population in America is the group of individuals that live at the intersection of disability, race and ethnicity.

This report from the National Disability Institute examines the financial impacts of systemic inequality on Black, Indigenous or People of Color (BIPOC) with disabilities.

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The pinned post on this blog will direct you to action points to help fight this decision, even if you are outside the US.

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STOP THE SHOCK

Please stop scrolling and please take 26 seconds to watch this video (TW: Abuse of disabled people):

(Reposted by kind permission of @/auteach on TikTok).

On July 6th, a federal court overturned an FDA ban on the use of electroshock devices on autistic people, which the United Nations recognises as torture.

This blog will be dedicated to the #StopTheShock campaign and will include survivors’ stories and action points to help fight this decision and stop the torture of autistic people.

For a current list of action points, head over to the AuTeach website. PLEASE REBLOG and spread the word, even if you are not autistic, and follow this blog for updates.

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Just to clear up some misconceptions I have seen elsewhere: This is not the same as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). This is a device called a graduated electronic decelerator (GED) worn on the ankle which is used to administer remote electric shocks as a form of corporal punishment.

There is a group of people who are fighting a legal battle to be allowed to shock disabled children simply for displaying traits related to their disability. And they are winning.

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This is a clear violation of human rights. Hell, we don’t even use shock collars on dogs because of its cruelty, yet these people want to use this on human beings.

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I’m angry that we live in a world where I actually need to say this

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OH COME FUCKING ON! JEEZ! SOMETIMES I WONDER IF PEOPLE ON THE SPECTRUM ARE EVEN CONSIDERED PEOPLE TO LAW PEOPLE! I mean look at Austism speaks! Their still legally running AND THEY KILLED A KID!

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No, the students at the Judge Rotenberg Center are most certainly not considered people. They are considered subhuman because they are disabled and because the vast majority of them are children of colour. They are considered as nothing more than a list of "problematic" behaviours and I cannot emphasise enough that this is not unique to the JRC, although it is an extreme place even by ABA standards.

Six students have died at the JRC. Food deprivation, physical restraint and seclusion are all commonplace there, and indeed are written directly into students' care plans.

I would strongly encourage you to seek out Jennifer Msumba's interviews, she is a survivor of the JRC and I have linked some on this blog.

It is not a place that humans should be sent to. But they are.

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All the weight of our dreams - On living racialized autism

July is Disability Pride Month, and on the 6th of July we heard the devastating news that a federal court had ruled that the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, Massachusetts would be allowed to continue using painful electric shocks on their disabled students. A disproportionate number of the JRC’s students are people of color, and they are being subjected to inhumane treatment in the name of behaviour management.

“According to the National Center for Education Statistics [12], in the 2015–2016 school year, JRC’s school-age population was 81.5% Black or Latinx people, with all categories of people of color or racial minorities combined comprising 87.4% of its population.“

Neumeier S.M., Brown L.X.Z. (2020) Torture in the Name of Treatment: The Mission to Stop the Shocks in the Age of Deinstitutionalization.

If you are already supporting the #StopTheShock campaign, please consider donating to the Autistic People of Color Fund if you are financially able to at this time, and please help to spread the word. This is one of the practical ways we can help to combat the JRC’s practices and to support autistic people of color during Disability Pride Month!

“The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network in partnership with Lydia X. Z. Brown, with seed funding from the American Association of People with Disabilities Hearne Award, is proud and excited to announce the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment!”

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Last week, the FDA overturned the ban on shock devices. Hear Lydia X.Z. Brown explain what this means for autistics and how to fight back!

Register now for an event TONIGHT at 8:30EST about what the overturned GED ban means for our community and how to fight back, featuring Lydia X.Z. Brown.

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We can and must do better for our children!

If you have been impacted by the recent news stories about the Judge Rotenberg Center and their use of electric shock devices on disabled children, please consider looking into wider use of restraint and seclusion. The electric shocks are just one aspect of the abuse that goes on at the JRC, with physical restraint, food deprivation, invasion of privacy, isolation and loss of contact with family commonplace.

These practices are not limited to the JRC; restraint and seclusion are widely used in schools and residential care and are considered the norm in many places. The practice of prone restraint, which has led to the death of autistic children (including Eric Parsa, Max Benson and Corey Foster among many others), was further normalised in Sia’s ableist movie Music earlier this year.

To find out more, please visit the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint website linked above.

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Just to add to this, please also consider looking into how to support the Keeping All Students Safe Act (KASSA), which will address issues such as seclusion and restraint of disabled students and the practice of using electric shocks on disabled children and adults at the JRC.

(Resources on KASSA and how to help to follow on the @stoptheshock blog, follow for updates!)

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