{"id":317,"date":"2009-04-15T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-04-15T20:02:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T01:02:45","slug":"iso-stories-reports-about-restraints-seclusion-aversives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/iso-stories-reports-about-restraints-seclusion-aversives\/","title":{"rendered":"ISO Stories &#038; Reports about Restraints, Seclusion &#038; Aversives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"ISO%20Stories%20%26%20Reports%20about%20Restraints%2C%20Seclusion%20%26%20Aversives\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress&#8217; investigative arm, is seeking information about the use of restraints, seclusion, and aversives in public school day programs.<\/p>\n<p>The GAO is developing a report for hearings that will be held by House Education Committee Chairman George Miller on this issue. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The GAO is interested in all kinds of cases and situations in which children with disabilities were subjected to abusive interventions at school.\u00a0These can be civil cases, criminal matters, due process hearings, or situations in which no one filed a hearing request or went to court at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copaa.org\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)<\/span> <\/a>wants to get an accurate picture of the extent to which restraints, seclusion, and aversives are used in public schools.<span style=\"color: #000080;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copaa.org\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">COPAA<\/span><\/a> developed a computerized form that people can use to provide\u00a0 information. After COPAA collects the information, they forward it to the GAO.<\/p>\n<p>To access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=kbizom_2bCU27wrYCCRv7R7w_3d_3d\">t<span style=\"color: #000080;\">he reporting form<\/span><\/a>, click here:<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=kbizom_2bCU27wrYCCRv7R7w_3d_3d\">http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=kbizom_2bCU27wrYCCRv7R7w_3d_3d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If You Are an Attorney or Advocate<\/strong> <strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are an attorney or advocate who has worked with many families, you may wish to select one child and fill out the form for him\/her.\u00a0That may be easier and will help\u00a0 learn more about that child&#8217;s situation as an illustration.\u00a0Alternatively, you can adapt the form by skipping most of the multiple choice questions and write about your clients in the <strong>narrative section<\/strong>.\u00a0If you do the latter, be sure to state the number of clients you are writing about (e.g. I have represented 5 clients&#8230;.).<\/p>\n<p>Please share this information with others. Forward it to lists, groups, individuals, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions, please email <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"mailto:jessica@copaa.org\">jessica@copaa.org<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress&#8217; investigative arm, is seeking information about the use of restraints, seclusion, and aversives in public school day programs. The GAO is developing a report <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/iso-stories-reports-about-restraints-seclusion-aversives\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,224,7,1273,92,64],"tags":[339,341,340,1315,338],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-education-policy","category-legal-news","category-political-action","category-restraints","category-special-education-regulations","tag-aversives","tag-copaa","tag-gao","tag-restraints","tag-seclusion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}