Missouri Advocates For Families Affected by Autism

We are a citizens action group advocating and lobbying for families that have a child with special needs. We believe that EVERY child has a right to a FREE and APPROPRIATE EDUCATION and should NEVER BE LEFT BEHIND.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Schools Claim Wide Leeway for Restraining Special Needs Kids ABC News filed a special report that featured the stories of special needs children who are brutally restrained in their school environments. Schools believe they need a range of tactics and leeway to deal with autistic children who “act out”. WATCH: Schools put genius child in special ed, tell mom he can’t learn. Now he’s free, and he could even win a Nobel Prize Some of the tactics include receiving electric shocks and choke-holds, as well as securing students in restraint rooms. Kids have died from some of these incidents. A surveillance tape from the interview below shows five teachers tackling and restraining a child in what they called a “therapeutic hold”, which killed him. Doctors blamed the death on “cardiac arrest while being subdued”. Read more at TLR: WATCH: Special Needs Children Choked, Tackled, Electrocuted & Killed In Schools (GRAPHIC, VIDEO) | The Libertarian Republic http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/watch-special-needs-children-choked-tackled-electrocuted-killed-schools-graphic-video/#ixzz2jJXlgOx2 Follow us: @LibRepublic on Twitter | LibertarianRepublic on Facebook

WATCH: Special Needs Children Choked, Tackled, Electrocuted & Killed In Schools (GRAPHIC, VIDEO) | The Libertarian Republic

Schools Claim Wide Leeway for Restraining Special Needs Kids

ABC News filed a special report that featured the stories of special needs children who are brutally restrained in their school environments. Schools believe they need a range of tactics and leeway to deal with autistic children who “act out”.
Some of the tactics include receiving electric shocks and choke-holds, as well as securing students in restraint rooms. Kids have died from some of these incidents. A surveillance tape from the interview below shows five teachers tackling and restraining a child in what they called a “therapeutic hold”, which killed him. Doctors blamed the death on “cardiac arrest while being subdued”.


Read more at TLR: WATCH: Special Needs Children Choked, Tackled, Electrocuted & Killed In Schools (GRAPHIC, VIDEO) | The Libertarian Republic http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/watch-special-needs-children-choked-tackled-electrocuted-killed-schools-graphic-video/#ixzz2jJXlgOx2
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