FDA Under pressure from disability advocates, the Food and Drug Administration says it will finalize regulations sometime next year banning electrical stimulation devices. (FDA/Flickr)

The Food and Drug Administration has indicated on its 2019 agenda that it will enact a ban on using electrical shock devices on people with developmental disabilities. This comes after the disability rights group ADAPT staged a 12-day demonstration in support of the ban, which the FDA first proposed in 2016. The only U.S. facility known to use shock devices is the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts.