Comments on: Police Intervention More Common For Students With Disabilities http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/08/25/police-in-school/4733/ Developmental Disability News Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: fdang http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/08/25/police-in-school/4733/comment-page-1/#comment-552 fdang Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:06:46 +0000 http://www.disabilityscoop.com/?p=4733#comment-552 When my son, who has autism, was in school, I advocated for him and also volunteered in the community in this area. There was a school district, whose parents I was working with, who had a similar problem. Their children were being arrested and put into the Juvenile Justice system. What we found out that what was happening was that students who had behavioral problems and had hit another student while at school, the school contacted the victim's parents to report the incident but also suggested to them that they contact the police and file a complaint. When a Special Education student has a behavioral problem and hits someone they can be suspended from school for 10 day ( I forgot the actual length of suspension ). After the suspension the student is back in school. He/She remains a problem of the school. If they are arrested the student is no longer the school's problem. The student is now the problem of the Juvenile Justice school system. If you child have behavioral problem request/demand that the school conduct a Functional Analysis of his/her behavior. ( Google Applied Behavioral Analysis or Functional Analysis if you are not familiar with these evals) Then request an IEP, parents can request as many as they need, an develop a goal for the behaviors and also ways, according to the evaluations, to respond to the behaviors. If, in the future, your child has a behavior and ends up in the Juvenile Justice system due to the behavior, and you recognize that the IEP wasn't followed, file a complaint. I am not an attorney, nor have I had any legal training with the exception of what I have read or learned on my own. I have filed many complaints against the state that I was living in with very good results. Understand the Laws When my son, who has autism, was in school, I advocated for him and also volunteered in the community in this area. There was a school district, whose parents I was working with, who had a similar problem. Their children were being arrested and put into the Juvenile Justice system. What we found out that what was happening was that students who had behavioral problems and had hit another student while at school, the school contacted the victim’s parents to report the incident but also suggested to them that they contact the police and file a complaint. When a Special Education student has a behavioral problem and hits someone they can be suspended from school for 10 day ( I forgot the actual length of suspension ). After the suspension the student is back in school. He/She remains a problem of the school. If they are arrested the student is no longer the school’s problem. The student is now the problem of the Juvenile Justice school system.

If you child have behavioral problem request/demand that the school conduct a Functional Analysis of his/her behavior. ( Google Applied Behavioral Analysis or Functional Analysis if you are not familiar with these evals) Then request an IEP, parents can request as many as they need, an develop a goal for the behaviors and also ways, according to the evaluations, to respond to the behaviors. If, in the future, your child has a behavior and ends up in the Juvenile Justice system due to the behavior, and you recognize that the IEP wasn’t followed, file a complaint. I am not an attorney, nor have I had any legal training with the exception of what I have read or learned on my own. I have filed many complaints against the state that I was living in with very good results. Understand the Laws

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