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Guidelines for Serving Students with Emotional Disturbance in Educational Settings
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North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, 2016
The number of students identified under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) with an emotional disturbance (ED) has remained remarkably stable over the last 30 years. During this time, approximately 1% of the school-aged population has been identified as disabled under the criteria set forth in IDEA (Kim, Forness, & Walker,…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Emotional Disturbances, Students with Disabilities, Individualized Education Programs
Assessment of Depression in Adults with Severe or Profound Intellectual Disability.
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Evans, K. M.; Cotton, M. M.; Einfeld, S. L.; Florio, T. – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1999
Nurses applied standard behavioral criteria for major depression to evaluate 89 institutionalized adults with severe or profound intellectual disability. Results suggested that several additional behaviors listed on the Aberrant Behavior Checklist and the Developmental Behavior Checklist may be associated with this disorder in this population.…
Descriptors: Adults, Check Lists, Depression (Psychology), Disability Identification
Keys to Effective Hearing Conservation Programs: Hearing Status of School-Age Children.
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Anderson, Karen L. – 1992
This paper addresses incidence of hearing loss in school-age children, components of hearing conservation programs, and hearing loss education. Incidence figures for the following hearing loss categories are detailed: unilateral hearing loss, fluctuating hearing loss, minimal sensorineural hearing loss, and mild to profound hearing loss.…
Descriptors: Audiology, Auditory Evaluation, Check Lists, Deafness
Similarities and Differences between Children with and without Disabilities on Identified Clinical Findings
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Reinke, Diane C. – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2005
This study was conducted to examine the types and proportions of identified clinical findings among children with and without disabilities. Using data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS), this study compared 7672 children aged 0 to 15 years (n=1067 with disabilities and n=6605 without disabilities) who were…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Disabilities, Clinical Diagnosis, Foreign Countries
General Information Packet on Learning Disabilities.
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National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc., New York, NY. – 1998
This information packet provides an overview of learning disabilities. Information includes the following: (1) the definition of learning disability; (2) incidence of learning disabilities; (3) criteria used to decide whether a person has a learning disability; (4) common causes of learning disabilities; (5) the importance of early identification;…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Childrens Rights, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification
Use of Different Measures To Identify Preschoolers At Risk for Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: Impact on Gender and Ethnicity.
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Serna, Loretta; Nielsen, Elizabeth; Mattern, Nancy; Forness, Steven R. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2002
Different measures of symptoms and functional impairments were obtained on 285 Head Start children to identify emotional/behavioral disorders. These included six instruments completed by teachers and two completed by parents. Identification of children considered at risk ranged from a low of 1% to a high of 34%. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Disability Identification