My experience turned out (at least for me) to be different. The teacher works to the best of their ability with the resources and training they have available. My oldest son (10 years old) had a meltdown at school. She was held and transported during this meltdown. She was left with seven bruises and was left extremely traumatised. The four people involved in this situation didn't handle it properly, not because I'm his mother, because there are guidelines to follow for things like that, and they didn't follow them. According to my daughter's IEP (individualized education plan), she should have had an assistant; it also had to have certain sensory elements. That day he did not have an assistant, nor did he have his sensory objects. If these things had been present perhaps this would not have happened. However, after this experience, I began to fight for change. I didn't blame the teachers for this; this was due to a lack of training and knowledge on how to handle situations like this. The school district has implemented training for all staff. All received 20 hours of mandatory training on proper restraint of a child by CPI professionals (The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® Program, n.d.). As a parent I also have a responsibility in this. Even though my daughter is autistic, that doesn't excuse her behavior. I contacted his company ABA (applied behavioral analysis); we developed an intervention and set the related objectives
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