Schools Accused of Restraining Kids with Autism, Disabilities

are against the human and ethical rights committee, and there for should not be used. And when restraints are needed it should fall with in the guide lines of theraputic intervention which is a way of handling a situation without actually causing harm to an individual. And there should be no pain involved in it at all and the child should have either a program in place that allows for a one man or two man carry along or to be carried period. there is no need for excessive anything with any child. And further more even then there should be a claim put in with a human rights committee and the only other restraints that should be allowed are ones for safety like belts on wheelchairs, or on eating chairs or anything used to keep a child from falling and getting hurt. And again should in no way harm the child

First, I do not support any restraint program, unless the restraint is solely for the protection of the child from themself. Anything more is pure abuse.

In the past several years there has been a growing epidemic of people who want to repair their damage children (that is what they call their autistic child) because they are broken. They will do anything to do this, and, in the process, paint their children as defective. Defective children are far easier, in the minds of some, to restrain and abuse. These are the "curebies" that are virulently anti- vaccination , pro-quack treatments, and will stop at nothing to fix their kids. Some even chemically castrate them using Lupron.

Question: Why would rules to restrain a special needs child be different from rules to restrain ANY child? Though obviously more rare, typical kids can get physically combative too. Dare any school district claim that the children with special needs should receive particularly torturous or even lethal restraint procedures, over and above what is given to a typical child? Punishing the child for having a disability is patently illegal and immoral. Imagine a teacher suffocating the school's young football star, because he got in a scrape with a peer or teacher, and became combative. Should the child be pinned to suffocation? Would the teacher just have been "doing his job?" There would be an outcry and lynching bar none for this teacher. But a child with autism ? Our society thinks these are disposable human beings. They are not. As a health professional who has met and worked with hundreds of children with autism over the last 10 years, I have never met a single one who was not thinking, feeling, and endeavoring like any other child is compelled to do. Their disability in no way lessens their right to endeavor, to feel safe, be loved, or exist. This kind of treatment makes children with autism - and their families - the biblical lepers of the 21st century. Evolve, people!