For a third straight year, Florida parents and special-education advocates are trying to get a law passed that would prevent school employees from holding students with disabilities face-down or shutting them in rooms to try to control behaviors associated with their conditions.
This year, proponents have the backing of the National Autism Association, Autism Speaks and 26 state organizations, primarily involved in medical or disabilities issues.
There's also a federal push to limit the use of such practices after a U.S. Government Accountability Office report revealed hundreds of cases of alleged abuse and several children killed when school and treatment center staffers used the methods.
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