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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => News Items => Topic started by: Anonymous on July 16, 2008, 08:33:41 PM
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Calm Down or Else (http://http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/health/15restraint.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin)
Dr. Miller learned that Tim, who has Asperger’s syndrome, was being unusually confrontational in class, and that more than once teachers had held him down on the floor to “calm him down,” according to logs teachers kept to track his behavior; on at least one occasion, adults held Tim prone for 20 minutes until he stopped struggling.
In April, a 9-year-old Montreal boy with autism died of suffocation when a special education teacher wrapped him in a weighted blanket to calm him, according to the coroner’s report. Two Michigan public school students with autism have died while being held on the ground in so-called prone restraint.