Response to: Time-Out with an 8-year-old

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Response to: Time-Out with an 8-year-old autistic girl

Dr. Howie Knoff/Project ACHIEVE

Columnist EducationNews.org

On October 17th (see below), there was an Associated Press story describing the

inappropriate use of Time-Out with an 8-year-old autistic girl in Iowa. In

short, after failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler

was sent to the school's time-out room—a converted storage area under a

staircase—where she was left alone for three hours.

Jimmy Kilpatrick

Special Education Advocate and Consultant

SpecialEdAdvocate.org

P.O. Box 17392

Sugar Land, Texas 77496-17392

832 814-7463

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