The room, seen in pictures that Miller shared, is known as a de-escalation room, seclusion room or time-out room. Often used as a tool to help special needs students, like Cooper, calm down.

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a ...

RELATED: South Jordan mother raises concern over use of 'seclusion rooms' in public schools Their mother, Tara Cooper, shared a cell phone video with KUTV she took on January 13, 2025. She went to ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, ...

A week after voting to uphold the firing of McAuliffe International School Principal Kurt Dennis, the school board vice president shared some of the district's findings. Vicente Arenas hears from ...

Physical restraints and seclusion rooms have been used on students hundreds of times in New Brunswick since the start of the school year, district data show. But most of those instances involve repeat ...

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But the couple’s initial excitement that lawmakers may move to end seclusion — a behavioral intervention used to isolate students from their peers, sometimes in a small, padded room — was ...

“There's a variety of different definitions for what seclusion is, but generally it's recognized as involuntarily confining a patient alone in a locked room or restricted area until their conflict ...

who said continually changing best practices now discourage seclusion — in which a student is involuntarily confined alone in a room or area. “The use of seclusion can cause or worsen mental ...

State lawmakers have tried in recent years to better monitor and oversee seclusion, which means shutting a student inside a room, and restraint, which means physically restraining a student.