In addition to corporal punishment, prohibited discipline techniques include, but are not limited to:
  (1) Any harsh, cruel, unusual, unnecessary, demeaning, or humiliating discipline or punishment;
  (2) Denial of mail or visits with their families as discipline or punishment;
  (3) Threatening with the loss of placement as discipline or punishment;
  (4) Using sarcastic or cruel humor;
  (5) Maintaining an uncomfortable physical position, such as kneeling, or holding his arms out;
  (6) Pinching, pulling hair, biting, or shaking a child;
  (7) Putting anything in or on a child's mouth;
  (8) Humiliating, shaming, ridiculing, rejecting, or yelling at a child;
  (9) Subjecting a child to abusive or profane language;
  (10) Placing a child in a dark room, bathroom, or closet;
  (11) Requiring a child to remain silent or inactive for inappropriately long periods of time for the child's age;
  (12) Confining a child to a highchair, box, or other similar furniture or equipment as discipline or punishment;
  (13) Denying basic child rights as a form of discipline or punishment;
  (14) Withholding food that meets the child's nutritional requirements; and
  (15) Using or threatening to use emergency behavior intervention as discipline or punishment.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.1957 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; 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 2272