39% of States Lack Restrictions on Use of Restraint & Seclusion in Schools

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Disability Support More than one-third of states (39%) lack laws, guidelines, or policies for the use of restraint or seclusion methods with students with disabilities. Additionally, 87.5% of states permitted the use of prone restraint methods with students. Only 45% of states and territories require or recommend that schools automatically notify parents or guardians when their children with disabilities are restrained or secluded by school staff. During 2009, two states and several state departments of education enacted or strengthened their laws to prevent or restrict school use of restraint and seclusion methods with . . .