Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 200 - Board of Education
Chapter 20 - Council on Elementary and Secondary Education
Subchapter 30 - Student Supports
Part 2 - Physical Restraint Regulations
Section 200-RICR-20-30-2.4 - Determining When Physical Restraint/Crisis Intervention May Be Used
Universal Citation: 200 RI Code of Rules 20 30 2.4
Current through September 18, 2024
A. Use of Restraint/Intervention. Physical restraint/crisis intervention may be used only in the following circumstances:
1. Non-physical interventions would not be
effective; and
2. The student's
behavior poses a threat of imminent, serious, physical harm to self and/or
others; and
3. If a behavioral
intervention plan has been developed for the student, those various positive
reinforcement techniques have been implemented appropriately and the child has
failed to respond to those reinforcement techniques.
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