How Some Schools Restrain Or Seclude Students: A Look At A Controversial Practice [npr.org]

Our son witnessed multiple times when his friend was placed (dragged) into the "quite" room. He was placed alone, with the window covered on the outside with construction paper, and an adult sitting on the chair outside to hold the door foot-lock closed. MULTIPLE times - weekly. Nearly 20 years later our son can recall in vivid detail, everything - right down to the color of the chair. The boy being placed in the quite room was giddy, happy, non-verbal kiddo with autism. He would be placed in there for extended periods of time. The trauma that kiddo suffered is literally indescribable. We were fortunate, our kiddo could describe with such clarity, that the legal case to stop these practices from happening to other students at that school - prevailed. 

The graphic image used for this article does not accurately represent what many kiddo experience. They are in a closet sized room without windows - except on the door - (which in this case was covered on the outside with construction paper) alone, crying for help, doing all they can to have someone help them get out. They get progressively more and more scared - and nonverbal. Imagine that.

It is not only the child placed in the room that is traumatized. 
Karen
See the attached letter from the Office of Civil Rights(OCR) for updated guidance. HERE is additional information. THIS is for families, if they feel the need for assistance. 

Us trauma informed folks know that when the student soiled himself in an isolation room, it was not an "act of desperation", it was going pretty far into the freeze stress state, the "preparing to die" state.