Restraint is emerging as a hot-button topic among autistic self-advocates and some parents. People on both sides feel their position is obviously correct: Restraint leads to abuse, and should be ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect new information. Seclusion and restraint practices at one West Tennessee school district have raised concerns for one mother and led to an ...

RACINE - A Racine mother will meet Friday with Racine Unified School District officials about the restraints teachers used on her 3-year-old son who has autism. Hasmig Tempesta removed her son, ...

JoAnna Holton’s son struggled with his new school environment when he started Kindergarten at Jamison Elementary School in the Central Bucks School District last year. “Hitting himself,” said the mom ...

ADAM SEXTON REPORTS, SOME THINK A BILL BROUGHT FORWARD TODAY DOESN’T GO FAR ENOUGH. EMOTIONAL TESTIMONY AT THE STATEHOUSE. AS PARENTS TELL LAWMAKERS ABOUT THEIR KIDS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS SUFFERING ...

Inside the Montgomery County Jail, guards taunted, belittled and threatened Isaiah Trammell, a 19-year-old who had autism spectrum disorder. Deputies on the overnight shift told Trammell he was ...

An autistic man was left "scared and traumatised' after Southwark Council restricted him from leaving his flat regularly over ...