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New state law limits when schools can use restraint, seclusion

Samantha Shotzbarger, Cronkite News//April 30, 2015//

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New state law limits when schools can use restraint, seclusion

New state law limits when schools can use restraint, seclusion

Samantha Shotzbarger, Cronkite News//April 30, 2015//

Melissa Van Hook, a mother of two children with autism and co-founder of the East Valley Autism Network, helped bring about a state law defining and...

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Tags: discipline, restraint, education, schools, autism, seclusion, Kelli Ward

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