There is a proposal on the table for the Obama administration called the Autism Reform Act which addresses the use of seclusion rooms and the abuse of children with special needs in our schools.  If you are already a member of change.org, just click the link below and click the icon to VOTE for this reform act to be seriously considered by ( Read more... )

I was just reading yezida on LJ regarding Guontanimo and her questions about torture and human nature.  Last night, someone sent me this www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html  which discusses the death of a child in a seclusion room at a school in Georgia.  In my research over these past months (since the request from my son's school ( Read more... )