Category Archives: seclusion

Panel on Seclusion and Restraints at CEC Conference

From Jim Gerl over on Special Education Law Blog. Image via Wikipedia The CEC annual conference at the amazing National Harbor continues.  An excellent panel on the hot button issue of seclusion and restraints discussed the hot button issue. We … Continue reading

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Panel on Seclusion and Restraints at CEC Conference

From Jim Gerl over on Special Education Law Blog. Image via Wikipedia The CEC annual conference at the amazing National Harbor continues.  An excellent panel on the hot button issue of seclusion and restraints discussed the hot button issue. We … Continue reading

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ABAI on restraint and seclusion

Based on the work of a task force composed of highly qualified individuals, the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) has issued position statement about the use of restraint and seclusion in treatment. Members of the task force, which was appointed by the executive board, include Jon S. Bailey, Michael F. Dorsey, Louis P. Hagopian, [...] Continue reading

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Seclusion and Restraints Big Topic at Conferences

Image via WikipediaThis week, I am at the Utah Institute on Special Education Law. Seclusion and Restraints continues to be the hottest of hot button issues in special education law. Two speakers have mentioned the issue so far.The post yesterday disc… Continue reading

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2010 Utah Institute on Special Education Law Begins: Washington Update

Image via WikipediaI am attending the 2010 Utah Institute on Special Education Law. I will be presenting at the Post Institute trainings for hearing officers and mediators. I have already met a few readers of this blog here. Thanks for saying hello…. Continue reading

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Georgia Public Schools Ban Seclusion & Place Limits on Restraints

Image via WikipediaThe Georgia State Board of Education last week enacted a broad policy on seclusion and restraints in the public schools of the state. The new state rules prohibit seclusion; the use of chemical restraints (like prescription psychoti… Continue reading

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OCR to Collect Statistical Data RE: Seclusion & Restraints as well as Discipline of Students With Disabilities

Image via WikipediaThe Office of Civil Rights, like OSEP a division of the Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services, of the federal Department of Education, has announced that it will begin collecting statistical data about more than j… Continue reading

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Seclusion & Restraints Bill Passes House of Representatives

Image via WikipediaThe seclusion and restraints bill, HR 4247, now known as the Keeping All Students Safe Act, passed the U. S. House of representatives by a vote of 262 – 153. Here is an account by the Policy Insider blog of the Council for Exception… Continue reading

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Should Private Schools Be Covered by the New Seclusion & Restraint Law?

Image via WikipediaThe Council For American Private Education, an umbrella group representing a large percentage of private schools in the United States, has written a letter to Congress asking that private schools be exempted from HR 4247, the new Pre… Continue reading

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Seclusion and Restraints Study Released by Department of Education

Image by Christopher S. Penn via FlickrThe United States Department of Education has released a study detailing the policies and laws of the individual states concerning the use of seclusion and restraints. You may read the entire study here. A summa… Continue reading

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