NYS Dept. of Ed Update on Behavioral Interventions

Message From The Special Education Muckraker. Beware! NYSED's newest version of its "aversive behavioral intervention" regulations will be published in the NY State Register on Nov. 15th. They must be horrible, because NYSED has refused to let the disability community see them before then - and is asking the Regents to vote to make these amended regulations permanent at their Dec. 4-5, 2006 meeting. They don't want the disability community to have enough time to organize a campaign to persuade the Regents to vote these abusive regulations down once and for all. Stay close to your computers on Nov. 15th. Your children's physical safety in school may - really - depend on it.

UPDATE from child-autism-parent-cafe.com: Revised proposed regulations relating to Behavioral Interventions, including Aversive Interventions have been published in the State Register and are available for public comment. Written comments on the proposed regulation must be received by December 15, 2006.

Effective June 23, 2006, the Board of Regents approved regulations that establish general standards for behavioral interventions and set a general ban on the use of aversive behavioral interventions, with a provision and procedures for a child-specific exception to this ban (http://www.vesid.nysed.gov/specialed/behavioral/exception.htm). child-autism-parent-cafe.com

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