In addition to corporal punishment, prohibited discipline techniques
include, but are not limited to:
(1) Any harsh, cruel, unusual, unnecessary, demeaning,
or humiliating discipline or punishment;
(2) Denial of mail or visits with their families as
discipline or punishment;
(3) Threatening with the loss of placement as discipline
or punishment;
(4) Using sarcastic or cruel humor;
(5) Maintaining an uncomfortable physical position,
such as kneeling, or holding his arms out;
(6) Pinching, pulling hair, biting, or shaking a child;
(7) Putting anything in or on a child's mouth;
(8) Humiliating, shaming, ridiculing, rejecting, or
yelling at a child;
(9) Subjecting a child to abusive or profane language;
(10) Placing a child in a dark room, bathroom, or closet;
(11) Requiring a child to remain silent or inactive
for inappropriately long periods of time for the child's age;
(12) Confining a child to a highchair, box, or other
similar furniture or equipment as discipline or punishment;
(13) Denying basic child rights as a form of discipline
or punishment;
(14) Withholding food that meets the child's nutritional
requirements; and
(15) Using or threatening to use emergency behavior
intervention as discipline or punishment.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §749.1957 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909; amended to be effective April 25, 2022, 47 TexReg 2272 |