Summary: Raising Restraint Awareness
Ashleigh Jones
Raising Restraint Awareness
Take a moment to answer the following questions:
-Have you ever thought about being physically restrained?
-How do you think it would make you feel? Physically and emotionally?
-Have you ever even thought about this before?
-What about, physically restraining students with special needs?
These are all questions that many people have not ever considered. I know that I didn’t, until my current technology center teacher introduced the topic to me. Though it is an unheard and unreported subject, I have recently been investigating it. I think it’s agreeable to say that this subject is going to require some very outgoing and motivated advocates. In “Restraining Special Needs Students – A Practice …show more content…
The author, whose name is never clearly stated, introduces the article with one incidence of death by restraint, in a school created specifically for students with disabilities. It is then followed up by many resourceful statistics, and a more cases of students dying due to restraint or aversive intervention. The author concludes the article with multiple resources for PBS (Positive Behavior Support), and while summarizing the entire subject. Though Huffman adequately utilizes ethos, the article by APRAIS tends to be more appealing to logic, making it much more effective. Both articles force their audience to stop and think about the definition of safety, in our current educational …show more content…
From this preface, the reader(s) can really tell that Huffman is a very reliable source and could provide a significant amount of information on this specific topic. Although she has great credibility, she does not use it to her full potential. There is only one useful statistic throughout her entire article, and this statistic is not cited. The introduction of her fifth paragraph states, “. . . Currently there are 20 states that have no school policy against restraining student.” Where did Huffman obtain this information? She never says. As previously mentioned, Huffman focuses mostly on ethos. She uses the readers’ emotions to persuade them. Her article is very impressionistic, but it doesn’t give me any beneficial information. This article is mostly just about her personal experience, almost similar to a journal entry. In the second article, “In the Name of Treatment”, the purpose of the article is clearly stated on page four. “The purpose of this publication is to help parents and families learn more about the dangers of the use of aversive interventions, restraint, and seclusion, and to assist in keeping children safe while dealing in a positive way with challenging or inappropriate behaviors.” The author then supports this purpose by using logical conclusions and many credible facts. On page six of the same article, there is a
Raising Restraint Awareness
Take a moment to answer the following questions:
-Have you ever thought about being physically restrained?
-How do you think it would make you feel? Physically and emotionally?
-Have you ever even thought about this before?
-What about, physically restraining students with special needs?
These are all questions that many people have not ever considered. I know that I didn’t, until my current technology center teacher introduced the topic to me. Though it is an unheard and unreported subject, I have recently been investigating it. I think it’s agreeable to say that this subject is going to require some very outgoing and motivated advocates. In “Restraining Special Needs Students – A Practice …show more content…
The author, whose name is never clearly stated, introduces the article with one incidence of death by restraint, in a school created specifically for students with disabilities. It is then followed up by many resourceful statistics, and a more cases of students dying due to restraint or aversive intervention. The author concludes the article with multiple resources for PBS (Positive Behavior Support), and while summarizing the entire subject. Though Huffman adequately utilizes ethos, the article by APRAIS tends to be more appealing to logic, making it much more effective. Both articles force their audience to stop and think about the definition of safety, in our current educational …show more content…
From this preface, the reader(s) can really tell that Huffman is a very reliable source and could provide a significant amount of information on this specific topic. Although she has great credibility, she does not use it to her full potential. There is only one useful statistic throughout her entire article, and this statistic is not cited. The introduction of her fifth paragraph states, “. . . Currently there are 20 states that have no school policy against restraining student.” Where did Huffman obtain this information? She never says. As previously mentioned, Huffman focuses mostly on ethos. She uses the readers’ emotions to persuade them. Her article is very impressionistic, but it doesn’t give me any beneficial information. This article is mostly just about her personal experience, almost similar to a journal entry. In the second article, “In the Name of Treatment”, the purpose of the article is clearly stated on page four. “The purpose of this publication is to help parents and families learn more about the dangers of the use of aversive interventions, restraint, and seclusion, and to assist in keeping children safe while dealing in a positive way with challenging or inappropriate behaviors.” The author then supports this purpose by using logical conclusions and many credible facts. On page six of the same article, there is a