By s.e. smith on 20 December, 2010
I’ve been following the Keeping All Students Safe Act, an important piece of legislation for keeping disabled students safe in school. I’m horrified to learn that the Senate version of the bill, S. 3895, actually includes measures allowing for restraint and seclusion, which I missed when I posted about it earlier this year. (Mea culpa!) [...]
Posted in policy, signal boost | Tagged Congress, education, restraint, seclusion, United States
By s.e. smith on 15 October, 2010
On September 29th, 2010, Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced bipartisan legislation to establish federal minimum standards to limit the use of restraint and seclusion in schools. The Keeping All Students Safe Act (S. 3895) is the Senate companion to H.R. 4247, passed with overwhelming support by the House of Representatives on [...]
Posted in signal boost | Tagged action alert, disabled students, legislation, restraint, seclusion, Senate, United States
By s.e. smith on 9 June, 2010
Content warning: This post contains discussions about abuse of people with disabilities, including physical assault and the use of restraints. Last week, a major civil rights lawsuit was settled in Pennsylvania when seven families agreed to accept five million United States Dollars to resolve a case they filed against a teacher and her superiors, arguing [...]
Posted in autonomy, bodies, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged abuse, autism, autistic children, education, restraint
By lauredhel on 4 June, 2010
This post is not spoily for the Dexter TV series to date, except perhaps for the premise. It contains a very minor spoiler for an event that occurs at the start of Dexter By Design. Comments may contain spoilers up to the Chapter Ten of Dexter by Design, but no further please.. At the moment [...]
Posted in books, justice, social attitudes, violence | Tagged assault, book, brutality, dehumanisation, dehumanization, dexter, dexter by design, duct tape, homicide, immobilisation, immobilization, jeff lindsay, lindsay, police, power wheelchair, reading, restraint, thriller, wheelchair
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