The family of an 11-year-old autistic girl who was mistaken for an adult, restrained and injected with drugs at a Waikato ...

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 ...

Children with autism were the most frequently subjected to restraint or seclusion in Connecticut schools in the 2012-13 school year, according to a new state report that tallied more than 33,000 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Parents of a non-verbal, autistic child are asking themselves when is too much, after receiving numerous reports of staffers from a Clark County school using force on their child.

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 ...

JoAnna Holton’s son struggled with his new school environment when he started Kindergarten at Jamison Elementary School in the Central Bucks School District last year. “Hitting himself,” said the mom ...

Children’s Commissioner Dr Claire Achmad says the unlawful restraint and forced medication of an 11-year-old Māori autistic child represents a profound failure of the systems responsible for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher and an aide at a Pennsylvania elementary school abused autistic students who are nonspeaking, and Central Bucks ...