‘Make them stop, Mummy’: A family’s experience of restrictive practice

Abstract

In response to the Faculty’s request for papers on the topic of reducing restrictive practice, we received the following article written by a mother whose son has experienced restrictive practice. Dawn has just completed a PhD which concerns annual health checks for people with learning disabilities. Before that, she studied psychology and then clinical and abnormal psychology. Dawn is autistic and has a history of activism around learning disability/autism rights.