Sunday, May 24, 2009

GAO: Schools restrain, confine disabled children

From USA Today:

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Children with disabilities are being secluded from classmates and restrained against their will to control their behavior, a new investigative report finds — interventions that have led to harm and, in rare cases, deaths.

In many cases, the restraints happen even when students aren't physically aggressive or dangerous, says a report from the Government Accountability Office being released Tuesday."

These are fairly common practices that parents have to fight with the schools over their autistic kids.  I battled it during the Rifton chair incident during kindergarten.  I hope our story serves as a cautionary tale within this school division to not engage in these practices when handling special education students.  It was extremely mild as opposed to the ones cited in this article.  

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