Mar 15, 2019, KING5, Seattle, WA: Washington special ed students traumatized by physical restraints at school https://www.king5.com/article/news/washington-special-ed-students-traumatized-by-physical-restraints-at-school/281-98706d74-8d2d-4bb0-a548-ddf76299d2de VIDEO: “We found children suffering from anxiety, depression, and increased aggression—all stemming from isolation and restraint used at school. “And in Seattle, we discovered one elementary school with a pattern of putting their hands on kids with serious consequences for the students.” A child with autism was then profiled. Typical looking, very verbal, highly intelligent young boy. He added a school where he was restrained because of serious bad behavior…and for lesser things. He now suffers from depression. Ten other SPED families sent a letter about restrain and isolation used on their children. The law has been changed to where restrain/seclusion can only be used in a dire emergency in schools in Washington State. BUT, we’re told the elementary school involved is STILL USING THESE CONTROLS OVER CHILDREN. The example of another boy with autism was used. “…she witnessed her boy Alec, six years old and weighing 40 pounds, being restrained, not once, but on two separate occasions by the special ed teacher.” This caused visible changes in his behavior. The message here: the use of restraint and seclusion “can cause trauma. And if that’s true, then why are we doing it.” KING5 reported that staff at the school had training on “special techniques to avoid the use of isolation and restraint.” WHY are schools STILL using these practices? “We’re not sure why those numbers continue that way when they have been trained, but that’s what happening.” At the end there was a call for more training.
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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