First Published:
April 6, 2022
Promoting Positive Discipline Approaches and Reducing Restraint and Seclusion: The American School for the Deaf’s Model of Success
This brief describes a school’s transformation from using ineffective and punitive disciplinary practices to implementing effective and proactive responses to behavior by installing the PBIS framework in a unique setting. Specifically, this demonstration highlights the work of the PBIS school leadership team at the American School for the Deaf (ASD) and describes ASD’s use of PBIS strategies in alignment with the Six Core Strategies© to reduce their use of restraint and seclusion.
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Alignment
Alternative Settings
Discipline
Evaluation
Special education
Systems Alignment
Suggested Citation:
Wilson, K. V., Rhodes, C. E., Kern, L., and George, H. P. (April, 2022). Promoting Positive Discipline Approaches and Reducing Restraint and Seclusion: The American School for the Deaf’s Model of Success. Center on PBIS, University of Oregon. www.pbis.org