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Students with Behavioral Disorders: Determinants of Placement Outcomes.
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Glassberg, Leslie Ann – Behavioral Disorders, 1994
A discriminant analysis of characteristics of students with behavioral disorders in three progressively more intensive placements indicated that age at time of diagnosis was the strongest discriminating variable contributing to placement outcomes. Younger, brighter students tended to be mainstreamed, and older students with more externalizing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Disorders, Disability Identification, Intelligence
Students Identified as Seriously Emotionally Disturbed in School-Based Day Treatment: Cognitive, Psychiatric, and Special Education Characteristics.
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Duncan, Brent B.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1995
Diagnostic and treatment histories of 85 children and adolescents served in 2 exemplary school-based day-treatment programs in California were analyzed. Findings suggest a significant lag time between first symptoms, referral for services, and treatment; marked instability of psychiatric diagnoses over time; and lack of concordance between…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
Academic Performance, Social Competence, and Mainstream Accommodations: A Look at Mainstreamed and Nonmainstreamed Students with Serious Behavioral Disorders.
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Meadows, Nancy B.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1994
This study compared 13 students (grades 6 through 8) with behavior disorders who were mainstreamed part of each school day with 6 similar students not mainstreamed. Overall, the mainstreamed students had higher reading and written language scores, better work habits, and higher grades. Nonmainstreamed students demonstrated more extremes in social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Intermediate Grades