'via Blog this'"Lower-functioning individuals with autism may get slightly more compassion from their schoolmates, possibly because they are often segregated, but it turns out sometimes the adults in their lives more than make up for this reprieve. The rate of sexual abuse of adults with cognitive disabilities is staggering. An estimated 15,000-19,000 people with developmental disabilities are raped in the US each year. Further, 49 percent of those who are victims of sexual violence will experience 10 or more incidents of abuse. In self-contained classrooms, students are subjected to abusive practices including being zipped inside a duffle bag and put in a hallway, locked in “seclusion” rooms, spraying lemon water to the eyes, putting vinegar soaked cotton balls in mouths of children, and scraping underneath fingernails. Educators still fall back on dangerous methods of restraint that have proven deadly according to a 2009 GAO investigation because no federal law protects children in schools, though similar laws exist to protect patients in hospitals."
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Friday, January 25, 2013
CDC expected to announce autism rates now one in 88 | Autism in the House | a Chron.com blog
CDC expected to announce autism rates now one in 88 | Autism in the House | a Chron.com blog:
'via Blog this'"Lower-functioning individuals with autism may get slightly more compassion from their schoolmates, possibly because they are often segregated, but it turns out sometimes the adults in their lives more than make up for this reprieve. The rate of sexual abuse of adults with cognitive disabilities is staggering. An estimated 15,000-19,000 people with developmental disabilities are raped in the US each year. Further, 49 percent of those who are victims of sexual violence will experience 10 or more incidents of abuse. In self-contained classrooms, students are subjected to abusive practices including being zipped inside a duffle bag and put in a hallway, locked in “seclusion” rooms, spraying lemon water to the eyes, putting vinegar soaked cotton balls in mouths of children, and scraping underneath fingernails. Educators still fall back on dangerous methods of restraint that have proven deadly according to a 2009 GAO investigation because no federal law protects children in schools, though similar laws exist to protect patients in hospitals."
'via Blog this'"Lower-functioning individuals with autism may get slightly more compassion from their schoolmates, possibly because they are often segregated, but it turns out sometimes the adults in their lives more than make up for this reprieve. The rate of sexual abuse of adults with cognitive disabilities is staggering. An estimated 15,000-19,000 people with developmental disabilities are raped in the US each year. Further, 49 percent of those who are victims of sexual violence will experience 10 or more incidents of abuse. In self-contained classrooms, students are subjected to abusive practices including being zipped inside a duffle bag and put in a hallway, locked in “seclusion” rooms, spraying lemon water to the eyes, putting vinegar soaked cotton balls in mouths of children, and scraping underneath fingernails. Educators still fall back on dangerous methods of restraint that have proven deadly according to a 2009 GAO investigation because no federal law protects children in schools, though similar laws exist to protect patients in hospitals."
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