Parents, advocates launch survey to learn how Alberta schools use seclusion rooms

A lack of provincial data on school seclusion rooms has prompted a non-profit organization to survey parents about the use of restraint and isolation in schools.
Posted Friday, the online survey is the first effort by Inclusion Alberta to find out how often students are locked in time-out rooms and for how long. Many students who end up in the rooms have developmental disabilities or behavioural disorders.
“We want to try to get as complete a picture as possible of something that, in fact,