ABSTRACT

The use of restraint and seclusion in schools puts students at risk of injury or, in extreme cases, even death. As a result, advocacy organizations and the U.S. Department of Education have developed and proliferated policy and legislative recommendations to reduce such use. Nevertheless, incidents of restraint and seclusion continue to occur, and more frequently with students with disabilities. In this study, we leveraged the most recent U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights Data to examined the prevalence of restraint and seclusion use for students with and without disabilities and school-level predictors of increased restraint and seclusion incidents. We found that students with disabilities are seven times more likely to be restrained and four times more likely to be secluded. We also found that students in special education schools are almost guaranteed to receive a restraint or seclusion. The results are then contextualized using prior research and policy recommendations.

摘要

在学校使用约束和隔离会使学生面临受伤的风险，在极端情况下甚至会导致死亡。因此，倡导组织和美国教育部制定并推广了减少此类使用的政策和立法建议。然而，约束和隔离事件继续发生，残疾学生更频繁地发生。在这项研究中，我们利用最新的美国教育部民权数据办公室调查了有残疾和无残疾学生使用约束和隔离的普遍情况，以及学校层面约束和隔离事件增加的预测因素。我们发现残疾学生受到限制的可能性是其七倍，被隔离的可能性是四倍。我们还发现，特殊教育学校的学生几乎可以保证受到约束或隔离。然后使用先前的研究和政策建议对结果进行背景化。