NW Parents Challenge Schools' Handling Of Students With Disabilities

Thousands of times a year, Oregon and Washington students have been physically restrained or isolated from peers. Parents say what's meant as a last resort happens too often, without their knowledge.

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Report: Washington foster kids abused at out-of-state group home

Children entrusted to Washington’s foster-care system have endured “abusive” practices in a jail-like Iowa group home that inappropriately used painful physical restraints on children, according to a new report by a government-designated watchdog group.

The report, released today by the nonprofit Disability Rights Washington, documents numerous instances in which youths between the ages of 14 and 16 were held down by three or more workers. One child’s glasses were broken when staffers pushed the youth to the floor, and another was restrained for 45 minutes.

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• Washington foster kids sent to Iowa facility run ‘like a correctional institution’
• Report describes 'abusive restraint practices' for Washington foster youth sent out of state
• Tacoma foster child sent to out-of-state institution says ‘it was a nightmare’

Students with special needs in B.C. still face seclusion, physical restraint in schools

A new report from the advocacy group, Inclusion B.C., claims routine restraint and seclusion of children with special needs in schools hasn't improved much since its previous report in 2013 led to new guidelines — prompting the provincial education minister to promise new guidelines for schools by the end of the calendar year.

It says the impact of the practice in schools includes "profound, lasting emotional and/or physical trauma" for students.

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Judge allows 'draconian' restraint to be used against autistic 11-year-old boy for his own safety because of his 'extreme aggression and violence'

An autistic 11-year-old boy, whose behaviour is 'extreme', can now be physically restrained for his own good by staff at a specialist unit, a family court judge has rule.

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Children in custody could be killed by restraint methods

A number of authorised methods of controlling young people in custody could kill or severely disable them, a review has found.

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