Restraint is emerging as a hot-button topic among autistic self-advocates and some parents. People on both sides feel their position is obviously correct: Restraint leads to abuse, and should be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The family of an autistic 19-year-old man who died after his time in the Montgomery County Jail is suing the county and the ...

LANCASTER, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning released the findings of its investigation of an alleged child abuse incident at an IU13 facility in East Lampeter ...

HOLLAND — Kai Atallah can’t forget the bright lights. The 9-year-old from West Michigan isn’t talking about the sun streaming through a classroom window. Not the shine of a bottle rocket zooming into ...

"It doesn't teach them the correct way of dealing with life." Still, restraints are allowed under New York State law. "Restraints are an emergency practice," said Patricia Geary, coordinator of ...

An El Dorado Superior Court judge on Friday confirmed the plea agreement for the three El Dorado Hills school staffers indicted in the death of 13-year-old student Max Benson, ordering two Guiding ...

Ebonie Baltimore got a call on March 1 from the group home where her nephew, Xavier Hernandez, lived. Something had happened to Hernandez at school, the caller said, and he’d been taken to the ...

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