Although few educators choose to work with students with behavioral difficulties, some decide to work with students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Special education teachers who work with students with EBD have a high turnover rate because those students are one of the most challenging populations to teach. Separate day programs…

Burnout is a significant challenge for special educators' wellbeing, as they report higher levels of stress than general educators. Rates of burnout are highest among special educators serving youth with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). At a time when nearly half of all students with EBD are spending more than 20% of their school day…

In this study researchers examined a teacher's use of simultaneous prompting (SP) procedure in a fourth-grade special education classroom setting. Using an ABAB single subject design, the effects of a SP procedure on an increased rate of delivering questions with a small group of students identified with emotional behavior disorders were examined.…

This study investigates primary school teachers' sense of efficacy in their work with pupils with learning, emotional, and behavioural difficulties (LEBD), both in mainstream inclusive classrooms and in special classrooms for pupils in residential treatment institutions. Using an online questionnaire survey, data were collected on teachers'…

This interpretive phenomenological analysis investigated the perceptions of school by students with emotional and/or behavioral disabilities (EBD) educated in a substantially separate classroom setting, and whether or not they reported connections to their teachers, peers, and school community. Nussbaum's Capability theory and Bronfenbrenner's…

For various reasons, many students with emotional disturbances are unable to succeed in traditional classroom environments. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of administrators, teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, and related service providers towards therapeutic intervention classrooms for students…

Students served in alternative and segregated settings tend to receive educational services that are not on par with their public school peers. To develop a better understanding of the problem, the authors conducted a national study of secondary psychiatric schools in the United States. Specifically, the authors administered a survey to…

Students identified with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) present a special case within special educational needs (SEN) and inclusion. EBD is perhaps the only category of SEN that exposes a child to increased risk of exclusion as a function of the very SEN identified as requiring special provision in the first instance. Students…

This brief report describes recent data on the enrolment of students in New South Wales (NSW) government special schools and special classes. There has been an increase in both special school and special class enrolments since 1998 with large increases among students with emotional disturbance. This pattern is briefly discussed in relation to…

TO ASSIST SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN SETTING UP CLASSES FOR THE EMOTIONALLY HANDICAPPED, THE LEGAL BASIS FOR MICHIGAN STATE-APPROVED PROGRAMS IS IDENTIFIED, STATE RULES AND REGULATIONS ARE REVIEWED, AND RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE INDICATED. INCLUDED ARE PROGRAMS AND THEIR GOALS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEFINITIONS AND PROCEDURES.…

The article describes the establishment of a school based child guidance service for emotionally disturbed school children in a comprehensive school in England. (CD)

The survey found, among other things, that--contrary to common practice--conduct-problem children were not ranked high. Rather, the hypersensitive, easily hurt child was considered most in need of services. (Author/DLS)

The authors, asserting that proponents of integration have often built their arguments on mistaken assumptions, proceed to discuss these assumptions with regard to emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered children and present arguments for segregation and an appropriate procedure for reintegration. (Author)