• Keeping All Students Safe: The Need For Federal Standards to Protect Children from Abusive Restraint and Seclusion in Schools – Restraint and seclusion can impact all students, but reports and studies indicate that children with disabilities, such as developmental disorders and autism, suffer disproportionately from these practices. Although there is a disproportionate use of restraint and seclusion on children with disabilities, reports have also focused on the fact that this is not solely a disability issue, and the absence of documentation and reporting makes an accurate estimate of who is being restrained and secluded impossible.