Saturday, December 22, 2012

Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline for Autistic, Disabled Kids | Synopsis

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Death at School: Parents Protest Dangerous Discipline for Autistic, Disabled Kids

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Sheila Foster's son Corey, 16, died when staff members at a special needs facility in Yonkers, New York held him face down for allegedly refusing to get off the basketball court. (ABC News) Thousands of autistic and disabled schoolchildren have been injured and dozens have died after being restrained by poorly trained teachers and school aides who tried to subdue them using at times unduly harsh techniques, an ABC News investigation has found. With no agreed upon national standards for how teachers can restrain an unruly child, school officials around the country have been employing a wide array of methods that range from sitting on children, to handcuffing them, even jolting them with an electric shock at one specialized school. Some have locked children in padded rooms for hours at a time.

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Sheila Foster

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0"Nightline" Thursday, Sheila Foster said ...
0.295068"Every time just looking at these pictures, I know I won't feel him hug me anymore, or say, 'I love you mommy,'" she said. ...
0.211476"Every time just looking at these pictures, I know I won't feel him hug me anymore, or say, 'I love you mommy,'" she said. "That was the last time he was alive and I want to see that."
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  • Number of Quotes: 3
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Corey

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Sandra Baker

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-0.0492062"When I got to the end of the hall and saw the bag, I stood there like, 'Hmmm, what in the world?'" the boy's mother, Sandra Baker, recalled ...
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Christopher Baker

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City: New York

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