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Originally Posted by Chris
That isn't how the child would have seen it. You're in a room alone, the door won't open, you're alone. Not nice.
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Unpleasant and distressing for a normal child - how much moreso for an autistic one?
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Originally Posted by nomadking
She was allowed to calm down without disrupting the rest of the class and how long should someone wait for that to happen, an hour, all day, all week?
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You clearly have no concept of special needs education! If the school didn't have a strategy for dealing with such eventualites then clearly it was also negligent. There are policies and procedures for dealing with children like these - shutting them in rooms all on their own isn't one of them!