Parents: Ban schools from restraining students with autism, other disabilities

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Parents: Ban schools from restraining students with autism, other disabilities

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By Green, The Palm Beach Post

January 16 2010, 10:00 PM EST

TALLAHASSEE -- For a third straight year, Florida parents and special-education

advocates are trying to get a law passed that would prevent school employees

from holding students with disabilities facedown or shutting them in rooms to

try to control behaviors associated with their conditions.

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