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3 1/2 Hours in a Concrete Room |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 1:38 am |
| Tags: safety, legal issues, education, asd, aspergers, autism, children, discipline, family, health, iowa, parenting, pdd nos, student, teacher, timeout |
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This article is about whether the use of a 3 1/2-hour timeout was an appropriate procedure for the Waukee Community School District (Iowa) to use with 8-year-old autistic Isabel Loeffler. No, was my immediate response on reading the headline. Then I read more—and I saw the video of Isabel in the room—and it got worse. The August 5th Des Moines Register has photos of Isabel in the concrete “timeout” room and describes the use of restraints and physical prompting by teachers. The word “physical battle” is used to describe one occasion when three aides held Isabel in a chair and “a fourth teacher forced her hand to color.” If that is not troubling enough, here is Kevin Took, a psychiatrist at Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines, commenting on the use of the timeout. Took testified that he did not see anything traumatic about Isabel’s videotaped timeout, even though she wet her pants. Urination and defecation are fairly [ Full article ] |
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