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Originally Posted by nomadking
But even the experts indicate that there was no way of predicting that.
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How is it that the staff I've come across over the years have managed to either predict (and hence avoid) or cope with behaviour far more severe than this without resorting to shutting distressed children in rooms on their own?
Dealing with autism certainly isn't a science and but anyone who's working closely with an autistic child for any significant period of time should a) have been given guidance about that child, their needs and their reactions to certain situations and b) gained sufficient first hand knowledge of that child to know what to do in situations like these which are not exactly unknown in schools. The reaction to what should have been a relatively trivial incident was as callous as it was unprofessional.