WTVF

This school used electric shock devices on disabled students for decades. The FDA just banned them.

After years of litigation, the FDA on Thursday issued a ban on Electrical Stimulation Devices (ESDs) — devices that were used to issue electrical shocks to the wearer in the hopes of changing behavior ...
WBUR

What to know about the FDA's new effort to ban a shock device only used at this Mass. school

Round two: The FDA is going back to battle with a Massachusetts school over a controversial electrical shock device. This week, the federal agency proposed a new ban on “electrical stimulation devices ...
Disability Scoop

FDA Ban On Shock Devices For Those With Developmental Disabilities Faces New Hurdle

With the Food and Drug Administration poised to again ban the use of electric shock devices on people with developmental disabilities, advocates are warning that some in Congress are quietly trying to ...
Yahoo

Sent to school that uses electric shocks, Mass. woman runs for office to protect others

In hopes of getting the help she needed, a Massachusetts woman was sent to the Judge Rotenberg Center — known for using electric shock devices — to finish high school. Instead, Krista Cormier left ...
UPI

FDA proposes ban on use of electroshock devices on some psychiatric patients

Federal regulators are taking a second stab at banning the controversial use of electroshock devices to manage the behavior of patients with intellectual and developmental disorders. The devices ...
Disability Scoop

FDA Under Pressure To Finalize Ban On Shock Devices For People With Developmental Disabilities

With the White House set to change hands, nearly 200 advocacy groups are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to finalize a ban on the use of devices that administer electric shocks to address ...
The Boston Globe

FDA’s proposed ban of electric shock devices has taken too long, autism advocates say

This is an excerpt of an article from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. For a full version of this story and related coverage, visit STAT. When Eagle visited the ...
The New York Times

Long Effort to Ban Shocks as a Treatment Faces Uncertainty

Regulators seeking to end the use of electric shock devices on people with disabilities have been swept into the government upheaval under President Trump. By Rachel Nostrant Photographs by Kayana ...
MassLive

‘It’s people like me’: Protesters rally against electric shock devices at Mass. school

With a sign in hand, a 16-year-old autistic Massachusetts resident stood along a busy Canton road just outside a facility still using electric shock devices on people like him. “This is a cause I care ...