IDEA Definition(A) A condition exhibiting one ore more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree, which adversely affects educational performance:
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Learning and Behavioral Characteristics |
People with emotional and behavioral disorders often struggle intellectually, academically, with employment/success, their behavior, and can often be categorized by their gender. Generally, the ratio of male to females with EBD is 2:1 (emotionally disturbed) and 5:1 (externalizing behaviors). This data seems to suggest that males tend to show more of an EBD than females. Children or youth with EBD tend to have a lower or average IQ, though this is not always the case as there are many with a higher IQ. Their behavior tends to be very defiant and oppositional, they can be shy, aggressive, and anxious, have trouble adapting, seem to have more energy, and even have trouble with language skills. Students generally have a difficult time in school if they have EBD, making it very difficult for them to be able to stay ‘up to par’ with their peer counterparts. These students also tend to have difficulties having employment in their lives.
When one things of an emotional or behavioral disorder, one often doesn’t realize how many it embraces; there are many different disorders. There are people that suffer with feeding and eating disorders (often recognized as anorexia and bulimia), ADHD, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress, attachment, ODD, BPD, schizophrenia, anxiety, OCD, disruptive behavioral disorders, and many more. Many of these EBDs are brought upon by trauma that one experiences in there life. Students with an EBD tend to fall behind in schooling and have difficulty in social situations. |
Appropriate Teaching Accommodations |
In the classroom, a teacher must reach out to form positive relationships with their students. The teacher must enforce positive communication and interaction between the EBD student and emulate an example as to promote positive behavior and involvement. As a teacher, you need to understand each student, along with each disorder. Provide engaging instruction and give consequences for positive and negative behaviors. Treat them fairly, if they feel as if they are not being treated fairly they may act out negatively. Be sure to enforce the rules all the time in the same manner. If a student with an EBD acts out negatively, talk to them separately on how their behavior was not tolerable, how it affected your relationship, relate it back to a value, and help them to understand why it wasn't correct.
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