Restraint is emerging as a hot-button topic among autistic self-advocates and some parents. People on both sides feel their position is obviously correct: Restraint leads to abuse, and should be ...

HOLLAND — Kai Atallah can’t forget the bright lights. The 9-year-old from West Michigan isn’t talking about the sun streaming through a classroom window. Not the shine of a bottle rocket zooming into ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect new information. Seclusion and restraint practices at one West Tennessee school district have raised concerns for one mother and led to an ...

LA PORTE, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana couple who accused staffers at an elementary school four years ago of strapping their autistic then-7-year-old daughter into a homemade restraining chair in the ...

The Pa. Office of Child Development and Early Learning said IU13 failed to notify state officials and parents about the ...

"It doesn't teach them the correct way of dealing with life." Still, restraints are allowed under New York State law. "Restraints are an emergency practice," said Patricia Geary, coordinator of ...

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Ebonie Baltimore got a call on March 1 from the group home where her nephew, Xavier Hernandez, lived. Something had happened to Hernandez at school, the caller said, and he’d been taken to the ...

HUTTO, Texas (KXAN) – The jury could begin deliberating Friday on whether a Texas special education director should be charged with assaulting a non-verbal student with severe autism and lying out ...

Three staffers at a now-closed El Dorado Hills school indicted in the death of a 13-year-old student with autism spectrum disorder while in their care have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the ...