In addition to corporal punishment, prohibited discipline techniques include:

1. (1) Any harsh, cruel, unusual, unnecessary, demeaning, or humiliating discipline or punishment;
2. (2) Denial of mail or visits with their families as discipline or punishment;
3. (3) Threatening with the loss of placement as discipline or punishment;
4. (4) Using sarcastic or cruel humor;
5. (5) Maintaining an uncomfortable physical position, such as kneeling, or holding his arms out;
6. (6) Pinching, pulling hair, biting, or shaking a child;
7. (7) Putting anything in or on a child's mouth;
8. (8) Humiliating, shaming, ridiculing, rejecting, or yelling at a child;
9. (9) Subjecting a child to abusive or profane language;
10. (10) Placing a child in a dark room, bathroom, or closet;
11. (11) Requiring a child to remain silent or inactive for inappropriately long periods of time for the child's age;
12. (12) Confining a child to a highchair, box, or other similar furniture or equipment as discipline or punishment;
13. (13) Denying basic child rights as discipline or punishment;
14. (14) Withholding food that meets the child's nutritional requirements; and
15. (15) Using or threatening to use emergency behavior intervention as discipline or punishment.

Source Note:The provisions of this §748.2307 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7377; 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 2248.