Thread by @AutSciPerson

Video with AuTeach, Lydia Brown, and Shain Neumeier talking about #StopTheShock , their involvement in the activism surrounding JRC, and what you can do to help.

#DisabilityRights
#CripTheVote

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70% of the students come from New York state

Often funded through IDEA, or Medicaid funding from New York

Apparently this is common for disabled people from New York to be dumped into out-of-state residential facilities/institutions even for decades.

#StopTheShock

A few things that could stop this:

If you're from Massachusetts, could tell MA representatives to strip the JRC of their nonprofit status.

For everyone, you can urge your legislature to cut the funding for the Judge Rotenberg Center.
#StopTheShock

Is the GED considered a mechanical restraint under the law?
(KASSA may have a broad definition which may count the GED as a mechanical restraint, unclear if this is true though).

Apparently the one use of the GED aside from torturing disabled people is by consenting adults wanting to quit smoking cigarettes. This is still operational conditioning. However, they decided to do it to themself & consented to. Which is not the same thing. #StopTheShock

So after hearing about this in the video, I tried looking up this "aversion therapy" to quit smoking, and I'm pretty sure the device they use is a completely different device?

So why couldn't the FDA outright ban the GED specifically?

#StopTheShock

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Lydia Brown suggests to email your representatives (esp. if they serve on house education & labor committee/senate health education labor & pensions committee) & ask them to include an amendment that would expand the bills prohibitions to include aversive interventions in KASSA

(KASSA is the student safe seclusion/restraint act that ASAN is pushing to try to pass)

#StopTheShock