MI Standards for the Emergency Use of Seclusion & Restraint - The document, Supporting Student Behavior: Standards for the Emergency Use of Seclusion and Restraint is now available on the Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services (OSE-EIS) Web site. The document summarizes how a positive behavior support approach uses proactive strategies to reduce or eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint; defines the terms "seclusion" and "restraint"; outlines procedures for emergency use of seclusion and restraint; and provides a framework for training.

MI Policy Supports Student Behavior - In question and answer format, this article discusses how the State of Michigan, Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services is interpreting the December 12, 2006 policy passed by the Michigan State Board of Education on Standards for the Emergency Use of Seclusion and Restraint. [Focus on Results: 2007-08 Volume #6, Issue #2, Packet #11, Article 1]

MA School Gets 'Ok' to Use Shock Treatments for Year - A special education school where two emotionally disturbed students were wrongly given dozens of shocks after a prank call will be allowed to use electric shock treatments on students for another year.

In The Name of Treatment: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Child From the Use of Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion (PDF) - Includes detailed information on restraint, aversive interventions, and seclusion. Also included is a "No Consent Form" for parents to give to their school to deny permission to use aversive procedures. Note: Images included are of children being restrained. Some viewers may find these images disturbing.

Reformers Push to End Restraint, Seclusion - Death, injuries prompt training of workers in more positive methods. Matthew Goodman, an autistic teen, spent the last 16 months of his life heavily sedated, in arm splints and a helmet, at Bancroft NeuroHealth in New Jersey. The restraints were supposed to keep him from picking at an injury, but his mother thinks they contributed to his death at age 14.  Children who fight, throw tantrums or threaten workers while in residential care in Ohio are more likely to be tackled or dragged to a ‘‘seclusion room" than given a psychiatric drug.

U.S. Connecticut and Michigan Will Help Develop Alternatives To Restraint - Three years ago, the Hartford Courant ran an investigative series into the restraint-related deaths of adults and children -- as young as 6 years of age -- in institutions housing people with mental illness and developmental disabilities. The team of reporters found that 142 such deaths occurred nationwide during the previous 10 years.

The Family Alliance to Stop Abuse and Neglect - a New Jersey organization currently dealing with the issues surrounding restraint.

The Use of Physical Restraints on Special Education Children has to End - I made a phone call the other day to Jake's school to state my position on restraining my son. He is hands off! No questions! This is a comment I would have never thought I have to make and, frankly shouldn’t have to make.