Special Needs Parent Locking Doors

The lsc annex provides pediatric and maternity areas and eds as examples of areas where patients might have special needs that justify door locking.

Special needs parent locking doors.

A simple knob lock or lever lock may be fine for a young toddler but an older child with autism may figure out how to manipulate the buttons. Children with special needs even as young as 3 4 years old are not intimidated by the keyed in lock on the door. Battery operated alarms for sliding doors into the yard. Exterior door locks doors to the exterior even just to your backyard should always be secured with multiple locks.

Ne eman on the other hand suggests that instead of setting up a system of alarms to detect elopement and locking children in parents address the reasons that autistic people might wander. A regular lock found on a residential perimeter door is typically a deadbolt configuration with a thumbturn on the inside for retracting the deadbolt. An enclosed fence around the house. Deadbolts for the exit doors so that they could only be opened with a key 8.

Keypad door locks so that anybody trying to exit from the house needs to input a code. In a reddit thread earlier this year a poster questioned whether his family really deserved child services investigating the locks on their children s doors after all they were just bolted. Keeping your autistic child safe isn t just about keeping him in you also need to keep him or her protected while inside. The responses were plentiful one a sympathetic correctional officer oh sorry parent wrote you have to protect your kids in unconventional ways sometime because kids do weird stuff and no house no.