Resources

Whether you are a parent, educator, advocate, organization or member of the media, the following resources will provide additional information on the prevention of aversive interventions, restraint and seclusion (ARS). If you would like additional resources, please contact us for more information.

APRAIS Fact Sheet

APRAIS – About Our Work

Glossary of Terms

Understanding Aversive Interventions, Restraint and Seclusion

Laws and Regulations

APRAIS Issue Brief: Federal Law Should Bar Restraint and Seclusion as Planned Interventions in IEPs and Other Education and Behavioral Plans

Aversive Interventions, Restraint and Seclusion in Residential Facilities and Treatment Programs

Aversive Interventions, Restraint and Seclusion in Schools

Understanding Parental Rights

Steps to Prevent Abuse

Essential Elements for Policy Protections

Debunking the myths perpetuated about the use of Aversive Interventions, Restraint and Seclusion

TASH Resolution opposing the use of Aversive and Restrictive Procedures

TASH Resolution on Positive Behavioral Supports

In the Name of Treatment: A Parent’s Guide to Protecting Your Child from the Use of Restraint, Aversive Interventions and Seclusion. This publication was developed by APRAIS, with editorial assistance and funding support from the founding organizations. Photographs have been contributed by the families of children who have been harmed by the use of abusive practices, and are used with their permission. This publication is dedicated to the memory of Matthew Goodman (1987-2002) and to all those children who continue to be abused and risk death in the name of treatment.

Articles and Reports

The Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children has released a document that reviews concerns about the use of seclusion and restraint and discusses positive strategies to prevent behaviors that could lead to the use of these invasive and potentially-dangerous practices – Preventing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion with Young Children

Read the Associated Press article, “Many States Don’t Regulate Seclusion, Restraint” (2/25/10)

School is Not Supposed to Hurt – a report chronicling abusive practices in schools and the lack of state and federal protections from the National Disability Rights Network.

Protection & Advocacy, Inc., investigative unit – Restraint and Seclusion in California Schools

The Legal Center, Colorado’s Protection & Advocacy System – Investigation into the improper use of restraint and/or seclusion of students with disabilities at Will Rogers Elementary School

TASH Connections, “What Restraints Teach” – an article by Pat Amos

A Snapshot of Six Core Strategies for the Reduction of Seclusion and Restraint – a report from the National Technical Assistance Center

Physical Restraint in School – a study by authors Joseph Ryan and Reece Peterson of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, published in volume 29, issue 2 of Behavioral Disorders, the journal of the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders

Reducing the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in a Day School Program – by Joseph Ryan, Reece Peterson, George Tetreault and Emily van der Hagen

Against Pain as a Tool in Professional Work on People with Severe Disabilities – an article prepared by the Research and Training Center on Community Integration, Center on Human Policy, Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation, School of Education, Syracuse University, with support from the U.S. Department of Education

Letters to Congress

APRAIS letter to Congress supporting a debriefing provision

APRAIS letter to Congress urging that restraint and seclusion be kept out of a student’s IEP and/or BIP

APRAIS letter to Congress responding to the Council for American Private Education request for exemption

Websites

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Center on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports http://www.pbis.org/

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Positive Behavior Support – University of South Florida http://cfs.fmhi.usf.edu/projects-research/detail.cfm?id=42

Association for Positive Behavior Support http://www.apbs.org/

Beach Center on Disability – University of Kansas http://www.beachcenter.org/

Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders http://www.icdl.com/

Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse http://www.caica.org/

Children Injured by Restraint and Aversives http://users.1st.net/cibra/index.htm

TASH has developed a number of publications on this topic that are available in the TASH store. If you would like more information about TASH publications, contact us.