Weekend Herald

Seclusion rooms

- Shaun Brennan, Taupo. Bruce Eliott, St Heliers. Murray Hunter, Titirangi. Mick Curran, Grey Lynn.

I am very pleased to see your paper’s actions have stopped autistic children being locked up in seclusion rooms but this has been going on for a very long time.

My daughter, who is now 38, was locked up in 1sq mcupboard lined in carpet when she was at a school in Taupo. This was a strategy devised by the highly trained teachers and education board staff. We took our daughter out of the school.

The biggest problem with autistic children is not always their behaviour but the nasty response from other people and the poor response from some schools and teachers. There are some very helpful people and schools as well but they are in a minority.

Although the seclusion rooms have been stopped, the people who thought of them or implemente­d them are still there. They will think of other barbaric ways to deal with the autistic children that most schools do not want to deal with. I hope your paper continues the crusade. would be inappropri­ate as this is the traditiona­l mark of respect on the death of eminent people or the remembranc­e of past tragic events.

Trump’s pledge to “Make America Great Again” and turn the rest of the world into an economic basket case must be acknowledg­ed in some other more befitting fashion. blinds to keep my cat safe again for weeks. Many pets and horses will be killed, besides major injuries to children.

John Key said on Monday he won’t ban their sale as Australia did decades ago, no doubt to please Max. Stevens Adams’ contract is an awesome result for a young man who has put in the hard yards. If it’s an obscene amount of money to your correspond­ent G. Stanton, really, who cares what surgeons get? ( A quite ridiculous comparison by the by.) It’s a great sporting story and the big fella should be applauded for doing something out of the box and getting a big pay day.

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