Schools Regularly Restrain, Seclude Students With Behavioral Issues
July 16, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Inclusion, positive reinforcement, and individual attention can prevent disruptive behavior in students.
Physical restraint and seclusion are ineffective tools for managing students with developmental and behavioral disorders, experts say. But both approaches are used regularly at U.S. schools.
During the 2009-2010 school year, there were nearly 39,000 incidents of restraint and more than 25,000 cases of seclusion at the K-12 level, according to a March 2012 report by the