Tag Archives: Disability
Scorn and A Deep Distaste For Trump Is No Excuse For the Media To Engage In Ableism | #Ethics on Blog#42
Scorn and A Deep Distaste For Trump Is No Excuse For the MSM To Engage In Ableism Continue reading Scorn and A Deep Distaste For Trump Is No Excuse For the Media To Engage In Ableism | #Ethics on Blog#42
A parent’s love, a parent’s great fear thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter & disability
I will never forget the day unrelenting fear entered my life. It’s been almost nine years. I can still taste its metallic taste in my mouth. I can still hear the sounds that brought it on. I can still see the horror that unfolded that day and subsequent days. Continue reading A parent’s love, a parent’s great fear thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter & disability
Seclusion and Physical Restraint Legal in most US Public Schools
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, June 19, 2014, 5 a.m.
Sometimes, Carson later told his mother, workers would run the fan to make him stop yelling. A thick metal door with lockswhich they threw, clank-clank-clank separated the autistic boy from the rest of the decrepit building in Chesapeake, Virginia, just south of Norfolk.
But such limits don’t apply to public schools.
Definitions and Terms
- Restraints are any holds in which a student’s ability to move their head, torso, arms or legs are limited.
- “Mechanical” restraints use something like straps, handcuffs or bungee cords to do the restraining.
- “Seclusion” refers to situations in which a student is confined against their will in a room they are prevented from leaving — often with a locked door. This is different from a “time out” in which a student is separated from others to allow him or her a chance to calm down. Link
Continue reading Seclusion and Physical Restraint Legal in most US Public Schools