When other child psychiatric hospitals in Virginia turn patients away, the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents becomes the safety net. The Commonwealth Center serves youth who require ...

Holding a child with developmental disabilities to the ground should be a last-resort method of calming them down, say attorneys for a family suing a children's hospital and school for its treatment ...

The illegal use of physical restraint by staff members at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester resulted in the fractured shoulder blade of a child with a disability, according to a report ...

Imagine being held face down 137 times, sometimes for more than one hour at a time by caregivers, over the course of six months and you had no idea what you’d done to deserve such treatment. That’s ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) – A two-year legal battle, initiated by parents of a son who has developmental disabilities, is now before the South Dakota Supreme Court. After a three-week civil trial in ...

The New York State Education Department collected data how many students experienced these methods in public, charter and ...

The state's education commissioner has ordered Kentucky public school superintendents to immediately stop using a form of Aikido training to restrain students. The letter, sent Tuesday, came in ...

If a student is a threat to himself or others, where does a teacher draw the line in restraining the child? What is acceptable force and what is abuse? Then, one day the Jasinskis ran into a school ...

CONCORD (AP) — Children were restrained or secluded in New Hampshire's residential treatment facilities more than 20,000 times in five years, according to a state watchdog office's report released ...

MADISON - In her yellow T-shirt, Daari Pawelski was one of a dozen or so Racine residents who traveled to Madison Thursday to pack a Capitol hearing room. They were in Madison to support a bill that ...

Teachers would be unable to restrain or seclude students in all but emergency situations under legislation introduced Tuesday by a bipartisan group of lawmakers and backed by Lt. Gov. Brian Calley.

This story is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune. Amending emergency rules put in place two weeks ago, the Illinois State Board of Education says it will again allow ...