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 ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning released the findings of its investigation of an alleged child abuse incident at an IU13 facility in East Lampeter ...

Inside the Montgomery County Jail, guards taunted, belittled and threatened Isaiah Trammell, a 19-year-old who had autism spectrum disorder. Deputies on the overnight shift told Trammell he was ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A LaPorte couple who accused teachers at the LaPorte Community school district of restraining their daughter, who has autism, with a wooden structure in 2017 reached a settlement with the district ...

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 ...

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