Prohibited Practices
Any physical force applied to a student for the explicit purpose of punishing or disciplining that student.
What is Corporal Punishment?
Physical restraint is only permitted when a student's behavior poses this specific, immediate threat.
What is imminent risk of serious bodily harm to self or others?
Following a physical restraint incident, parental notification must happen within this specific timeframe.
What is the same day?
This physical classroom item, often used in Discrete Trial Training (DTT) or for a student's dignity, must never be used to block an exit or punitively confine a student.
What is a mat or divider?
Interventions intended to induce pain, fear, or physical discomfort to eliminate a behavior.
What are Aversive Interventions?
Physical restraint may only be applied after these types of interventions have been tried and failed.
What are non-restrictive, verbal, or proactive interventions?
Written documentation of the incident must be provided to the parent within this many school days.
What is three school days?
Standing on the other side of a mat to block a student from leaving an area turns the intervention into this prohibited practice.
What is seclusion?
The involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or space where they are physically prevented from leaving.
What is Seclusion?
Restraint is completely prohibited in cases of property damage unless the damage results in this.
What is imminent harm to the student or others?
This 3-letter acronym refers to the specific debriefing process conducted with students following a crisis incident.
What is an LSI (Life Space Interview)?
Staff may never do this with a mat around a student due to an increased risk of the student climbing over it and causing injury.
What is wrap it around the student?
A prohibited physical restraint that forces a student into a face-down position, which carries a severe risk of asphyxiation.
What is Prone Restraint?
According to policy, a restraint can never be used to demonstrate or enforce these four things.
What are Authority, Compliance, Inflict Pain/Harm, or Discipline/Punishment?
If a parent cannot be contacted regarding the restraint, the principal must report their attempts to this specific district role.
Who is the building-assigned Assistant Director (AD)?
If a student is highly escalated or triggered, staff should use care because a physical behavioral prompt may cause this response.
What is further escalate the student?
These two specific types of devices are excluded from the mechanical restraint ban when prescribed for medical or adaptive purposes.
What are vehicle safety restraints and orthopedically prescribed safety devices?
Temporary, physical touching to direct a student's movement is not considered a restraint if the student exhibits this.
What is minimal resistance?
Post-crisis debriefing with staff must include a review of the positive and proactive strategies used prior to this event.
What is the restraint?
This risk of unintended physical "push back" occurs when staff use a mat as a shield instead of creating physical space or removing the target.
What is counter aggression?