Licensing Standards for DayCare Centers
7 AAC 50.435
BEHAVIOR GUIDANCE
(a) A facility shall help a child to develop age appropriate patterns of behavior
that foster constructive relationships and increasing ability to deal with everyday
life.
(b) A facility shall provide for positive reinforcement, redirection, and
the setting of realistic expectations and clear and consistent limits.
(c) A facility may not use discipline or a behavior management technique that
is cruel, humiliating, or otherwise damaging to the child.
(d) A child in care may not be
- (1) removed from the other children for more than 10 minutes if the child
is a young child, except as provided in(e) of this section;
- (2) disciplined in association with food or rest;
- (3) punished for bedwetting or actions in regard to toileting or toilet
training;
- (4) subjected to discipline administered by another child;
- (5) deprived of family contacts, mail, clothing, medical care, therapeutic
activities designated in the child's plan of care, or contact with the child's
placement worker or legal representative;
- (6) subjected to verbal abuse, to derogatory remarks about the child or
members of the child's family, or to threats to expel the child from the facility;
- (7) placed in a locked room;
- (8) physically restrained, except when necessary to protect a young child
from accident, to protect persons on the premises from physical injury, or
to protect property from serious damage; and then only passive physical restraint
may be used;
- (9) mechanically restrained, except for a protective device such as a seatbelt;
or
- (10) chemically restrained, except on the order of a physician and subject
to the provisions of 7 AAC 50.440.
(e) In a child care facility, when a young child has a pattern of out of control
behavior, the child may be removed from other children until the child's behavior
has stabilized. In addition, the facility shall develop a plan with the child's
parent to address the behavior issues.
(f) Corporal punishment may not be used on a child in care. (Eff. 1/1/96,
Register 136; am 3/1/98, Register 145)
- Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.35.010
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