Investigative report on the Ashley treatment, May 8, 2007

Click here to read the Investigative Report Regarding the Ashley Treatment prepared by the Washington Protection and Advocacy System (WPAS), a member of the National Disability Rights Network. WPAS is a private non-profit advocacy agency that is federally mandated to provide protection and advocacy services to individuals with disabilities in the state of Washington pursuant to the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights(DD) Act.

Press Releases regarding 'Ashley Treatment'

• Canadian Association for Community Living
  
• The Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia

  L'Arche Canada Questions Ethics Used to Justify "Ashley Treatment"
  It is difficult to sympathize with the ethicists and medical doctors who are now promoting the so-called "Ashley treatment." Ashley's case does not exist in isolation from human society, and it raises profound ethical and social questions. Read the full statement