The purpose of the study was to analyze the historical patterns in the relationship between specific types of disabilities and frequency of drug abuse or weapon offenses in public schools in the United States using the U.S. Department of Education Open Data Platform's (n.d.) data sets from 2011-2012 through 2020-2021. The problem is that students…

Most definitions of emotionally disturbed youngsters suggest that disturbances in the child's behavior patterns cause academic and social problems which affect the child and his peers. While the process of identification may be facilitated by operational criteria within a definition, these factors are noticeably absent from definitions of…

Presented is a behavior checklist intended to identify children who require medical or psychiatric evaluation (such as hyperkinetic syndrome, learning disabilities, depression, and psychosis) and that provides a "behavioral cluster" system, as opposed to single-behavior rating methods. (Author)

Two versions of the Disturbing Behavior Checklist (DBC), an indicator of the relative disturbingness of behaviors characteristic of mildly handicapped (emotionally disturbed and learning disabled) students were field tested with 250 and 150 university students, teachers, supervisors, and school psychologists. Both checklists were relatively…

The relationship between the diagnostic label either emotionally disturbed (ED) or learning disabled (LD) assigned to a child and the type of behavior exhibited by that child was investigated with a group of advanced undergraduate students. (Author)

The relationship between the diagnostic label assigned to a child (emotionally disturbed--ED, learning disabled--LD) and the type of behavior exhibited by that child was investigated with 128 special education graduate students. Ss were asked to complete one of four randomly assigned case studies in which the label assigned to the child and/or the…

Described is an ecological assessment technique which combines an ecological philosophy with a teacher centered method of data collection for assessing and intervening with the learning disabled or behaviorally disordered child and his environment. (DB)

Preadolescent emotionally disturbed (N=35), learning disabled (N=31), and normal boys (N=14) boys were compared on social perspective taking and behavioral measures to examine posible contributions of social cognitive deficits to children's adjustment problems. (Author)

Evaluation of emotional/behavioral characteristics of 67 learning disabled children indicated that children with left hemisphere impaired cognitive profiles demonstrated dysphoria, anxiety, and social withdrawal; while children with right hemisphere impaired profiles demonstrated low rates of dysphoria/anxiety and increased somatic complaints.…

The school survival skills of 36 learning disabled (LD) high school students were compared with those of nonhandicapped and emotionally disturbed students. Although LD students tended to be ill prepared, inattentive, and not to volunteer comments or questions, their performance was not significantly different from that of the normal control group.…

Investigated whether classroom teachers could differentiate among educable mentally handicapped (EMH), learning disabled (LD), and emotionally handicapped (EH) students based on perceptions of classroom behavior patterns. Ratings from classroom behavior inventory scales revealed that EMH students were distinguished by low intelligence, creativity,…