The Granite Police District and DCFS are investigating how a Rifton chair is being used in a special-needs preschool class. The school district says the student's family was told that the chair ...

For more than 20 years, schoolteachers and therapists have been using Rifton chairs in classrooms across the country. But these chairs are no ordinary classroom fixtures because they are made for a… ...

A federal court jury sided with the state Monday by determining no wrongdoing over a school's decision to tie up a 4-year-old boy during classes.

ARAB, Ala. (AP) — The father of a special-needs student in Alabama claims his son was punished by being restrained in a chair designed for therapeutic purposes.

An Alabama school superintendent says allegations in a lawsuit involving a special needs student are "absolutely and unequivocally false." The student's father claims his 6-year-old son was ...

Three Deltona educators won’t face disciplinary action for strapping a developmentally disabled boy into a wooden chair. Almost a year after 4-year-old Steven Walden’s parents complaine… ...

A 2014 U.S. Senate committee report found that Rifton chairs are meant to provide support and stability for disabled students, but aren't intended to be used for discipline.

Ward was strapped in a Rifton chair similar to this one by aides who admitted they weren't trained how to use it or aware of Ward's occasional seizures. A jury awarded her family $4.5M Tuesday.

A teacher at Stirling Elementary in Hollywood is accused of locking an autistic child in a chair for two hours, and improperly managing several other special-needs children, according to a complaint.

A 2014 U.S. Senate committee report found that Rifton chairs are meant to provide support and stability for disabled students, but aren't intended to be used for discipline.

The father said he only learned his 6-year-old son was placed in the Rifton chair after the boy told his doctor he didn't like "the buckle chair," according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S ...