FW: Treasure Coast Homeroom: Are teachers trained well enough to deal with autistic kids?

[Guest guest]

Lack of training and questionable discipline methods have become an increasing problem in our schools and many children are being seriously injured. Please contact this reporter if your child has been a victim of restraint or seclusion. This is one of the issues that will be discussed in depth at the Autism and DD Summit in Orlando.

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From: cvm514@...To: cvm514@...Subject: Treasure Coast Homeroom: Are teachers trained well enough to deal with autistic kids? Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:19:45 -0400

Treasure Coast Homeroom

By Colleen Wixon

Are teachers trained well enough to deal with autistic kids?

Posted August 15, 2008

I'm working on a story about whether teachers of autistic children get enough training. There are a lot of complaints from parents throughout the state and country on how their children with special needs are treated in classrooms. Many parents claim their children are being unnecessarily restrained or placed in seclusion rooms as a behavior management technique.

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