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Seclusion and restraint are often misused in both public and private schools causing severe injury and trauma for students. restraint and seclusion are often used as punishment for minor behavioral problems. [3] [4] These issues have caused people to call the practices a human rights issue, disabled rights issue, and civil rights issue. There ...
The Keeping All Students Safe Act or KASSA (H.R. 3474, S. 1858) is designed to protect children from the abuse of restraint and seclusion in school.The first Congressional bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on December 9, 2007, and named the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. [1]
Restraint, a practice that reduces students’ ability to move, and seclusion, which involuntarily places children in isolation, can now only be used if a student or staff member is in imminent ...
Abuse in special education usually refers to the use of restraint and seclusion, but can also refer to students being threatened with violence or staff withholding food. This abuse often leaves students with trauma and can leave the parents feeling guilt for the abuse.
A sign outside of Hazel Park Schools' administrative building pictured on Aug. 5, 2025. Hazel Park's board is considering a plan to reduce restraint and seclusion in schools.
“When we take away seclusion and restraint, we need to replace them with trauma-informed, neuroscience aligned, relationship-based, collaborative models that prevent the crisis situations that ...
On November 30, 2018, 13-year-old Max Benson (October 2005 – 30 November 2018), an autistic boy from Davis, California, died at the hospital from cardiac complications as a result of being held in an extended prone physical restraint by staff at his now-defunct K-12 non-public school, Guiding Hands School in El Dorado County, California, where he was placed a few months prior by Davis Joint ...
As a teenager, Hilton, who is now 43, was taken to a youth educational facility where she said she endured mental and physical abuse, including being held in restraint and seclusion rooms, an ...