Behavioral Interventions such as 'Planned Ignoring' is traumatic for autistic students. No one wants their feelings and needs ignored.
Planned Ignoring is Actually Emotional Abuse | Autism | Just 1 Voice
More "Awareness" needs to be created around aversive behavioral methods still being used on autistic individuals. Follow #stoptheshock and the bill, “Andre’s Law,” named in honor of Andre McCollins, a survivor of contingent electric shock and other forms of aversive conditioning (the practice of repeatedly and intentionally inducing pain or discomfort in an attempt to alter a person’s behavior.) Andre was sent to an out-of-state, DOE-approved facility where he was subjected to aversive conditioning and ultimately hospitalized after being tied to a board and shocked thirty-one times over seven hours. New York State continues to send children to this same facility, the Judge Rotenberg Center.
The dangers of restraint and seclusion.
The stories of 13 young people who died after restraint or seclusion (ctinsider.com)
"It's estimated that over 90% of people with an intellectual disability will be the victim of sexual abuse or assault, and about half will experience sexual abuse 10 times or more in their lives.”
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Autistic children and teenagers might not tell you that they’ve been sexually abused.
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Signs of sexual abuse in autistic children and teenagers include emotional or behaviour changes and physical injuries.
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Autistic children or teenagers who have been sexually abused need support to explain what has happened and express feelings.