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Special Education Student Handcuffed to Door for Nearly 4 Hours As Trend of Inappropriate Restraint Continues

School district officials in Detroit are investigating claims...

Filed under: Michigan, abuse, special education, disabilism, restraint, seclusion, disability abuse, schools, elementary education, detroit, antonio hunt
Teacher and Classroom Aide Arrested for Allegedly Abusing Student with Autism and Blind Student

A Georgia teacher and her classroom aide have been arrested for...

Filed under: georgia, teachers, abuse, special education, autism, child abuse, blindness, visual impairments, arrests, schools
Five School Staff Members Fired for Leaving Student Behind

Five Brunswick County (North Carolina) School District employees...

Filed under: abuse, developmental disability, north carolina, schools, education
Texas Residential Facility Investigated for Organizing "Fight Club" Among Patients

Admissions to the Corpus Christi State School, a publicly funded...

Filed under: intellectual disability, abuse, developmental disability, institutions, Texas, institutional abuse, caregiver abuse
Women with Mental Disabilities Forcibly Sterilized in Russian Pyschiatric Institutions

Fourteen female psychiatric patients with mental disabilities...

Filed under: mental disability, psychiatric disability, mental illness, abuse, eugenics, forced sterilization, institutions, disability abuse, institutional abuse, russia, mental institution
Virginia Senate Bill Could Permit Research On Incapacitated or Dying

A bill currently being considered by the Virginia State Senate...

Filed under: abuse, disability rights, living wills, nuremberg code, virginia, human experimentation, terminal illness, medical power of attorney, experimentation, advance directives, bioethics
Texas Man to Serve 20 Years For Sexually Assaulting Disabled Women

James Owen Spurlock , the Texas man who recently confessed sexually...

Filed under: news, intellectual disability, mental disability, abuse, developmental disability, rape, institutions, Texas
Parents of Autistic Student Sue School District Over Bullying

The parents of an autistic student have sued their son "John"'s...

Filed under: lawsuit, abuse, pstd, asperger's syndrome, autism, school, activism, autistic community, disabilism, pending cases, washington state
28-year-old Woman with Disabilities Dies in Group Home, Weighing 48 Pounds When Admitted to Medical Facility

Tara O'Leary, age 28, dwindled to a mere 48 pounds in a state...

Filed under: abuse, developmental disability, starvation, new jersey, brain injury, institutions, tara o'leary, scoliosis
Wisconsin Disability Rights Group Seeks Ban on Restraints

Angellika Arndt was seven years old when she died at a Wisconsin...

Filed under: abuse, death, disability rights, attention deficit disorder, wisconsin, institutions, restraint, Disability Rights Wisconsin, reactive attachment disorder, Angellika Arndt

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