PACLA Condemns Judge Rotenberg Center

The Judge Rotenberg Center is a residential school for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that is located in Canton Massachusetts.  The JRC uses behavioral interventions and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) to manipulate and control their students.  These interventions include aversives, punishments and continued use of electric shock devices.   These electric shock devices have been determined as torture by the United Nations.  The JRC calls this abuse “therapy” when done to disabled people.

The abuse of disabled people at the JRC has resulted in numerous deaths and in overwhelming  pain and trauma for it’s survivors.*  Parenting Autistic Children With Love & Acceptance as an organization and community condemns the continued torture of disabled people at the Judge Rotenberg Center.

Please sign and share the petition demanding the FDA end abusive electric shocks on disabled people: https://www.change.org/p/scott-gottlieb-fda-end-abusive-electric-shocks-on-autistic-disabled-people-for-behaviour-modification?recruiter=22005737&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=share_petition

PACLA is a grassroots, national organization by autistic adults, autistic parents and non autistic parents of autistic children.   Our goal is to connect parents to information about respectful parenting of autistic children and ways that they can engage with their communities to create a more inclusive, just and accepting world for autistic people.

*Autistic Hoya’s articles and resources on the Judge Rotenberg Center