OT: Re: OT: Boy Dies After Teacher Wraps Him In Blanket

[Guest guest]

Lenny,

Thanks for continuing to remind us of these quite unnecessary

deaths. Our seclusion and restraint state policy in MI states prone

restaint is not to be used and that students are to be monitored.

This to me is criminal negligence and this teacher should be

criminally prosecuted on some way. This could have easily been

prevented and how many kids lives have to be lost for folks to

realize it?

Carolyn

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> Boy Dies After Teacher Wraps Him In Blanket

>

> The Canadian Press

> http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/446206

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> MONTREAL–A Quebec coroner says a 9-year-old autistic boy died

of

> suffocation after a teacher rolled him up in a heavy blanket to calm

> him down.

> The death occurred in April at a school for children with

> special needs in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 40 kilometres south

> of Montreal.

> A report by coroner Rudel-Tessier says

Poirier

> was placed on his stomach and then had a therapeutic blanket wrapped

> around him four times.

> The report says teachers wanted to punish the child for being

> too noisy.

> The young boy was left alone in the corner of a classroom, but

> when the teacher went to check 20 minutes later the child wasn't

> moving and was in a coma.

> Therapeutic blankets, often stuffed with buckwheat or steel

> balls, have been used for several years to relax autistic children

and

> prevent behavioural problems.

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