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Abbie has Autism. She was restrained 14 times in one day by this teacher for noncompliance issues.
Restraint and Seclusion on Children with disabilities in the Florida Public School System
by NORestraint (Subscribe)
Posted on: Nov 12, 2007 at 8:36 PM EST
Channel: Local News
There are many Florida families who have children with Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders that are being restrained and put in seclusion in the public school system. Our children are being abused physical and mentally because of their disabilities and the lack of appropriate programs (public and private) and highly qualified teachers available to educate them. Many parents are so frustrated with the way their children are treated in public schools that they are turning to the school Hospital Homebound programs to keep their children safe yet still be able to receive some education. The average time allowed for Hospital Homebound is approximately 3-5 hours a week which is not even close to a normal school week.
Our children are coming home injured physically and mentally and there is nothing parents can do about it. No laws, no regulations, no tracking, no consent from parents and no parent notification in many cases. The current system allows the FLDOE and every school district to be their own police force for the documents they have created and the lack of documents that have not been created.
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This is horrible! How can they do this to children??
i dont know what that lady is doing but i am still going to comment.
This is a horrible thing here in the Lee County School District. Our autistic daughter has been traumatized mentally and physically from being restrained here by teachers. Not for what she had done but because of her disability.
We moved out of Lee Co. school district to NY because our 4 yr. old son has mild autism. Evals took 5 mo. there he was placed in self contained severe class. Kids napped in bathroom. It's disgusting. We're coming back next yr. to speak out.
The Florida school districts are out of control doing this to children with disabilities. This is horrible!
who taught this teacher restraint techniques? maybe a family member is a cop or she learned it from watching tv. Terrible! Good thing this is not my child in this pic!
What was the child doing to warrant such restraint? Was she endangering herself or her classmates? We need to look beyond this picture and consider the safety issues of the child, the other students, and the adult professionals.
suzette harris in hillsborough says ...
On Friday, Nov 16 at 12:44 AM
This situation is used incorrectly, and thus abusively, in inappropriate ways here too for high functioning Aspergers students. No prior explanations, so thank goodness some student are able to explain and ask the mom to have it stopped. DOE no help