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Direct linkMattison, Richard E. – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
This study of 182 secondary special education students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders investigated their classification by their school districts, in particular how well they were distinguished and represented by their federal categories. The districts used four classification groups (emotional disturbance, other health impairment…
Descriptors: Special Education, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, School Districts
Peer reviewedCullinan, Douglas; Epstein, Michael H. – Behavioral Disorders, 2001
A study examined comorbidity of the five federal definition characteristics among 1,352 students already identified as having emotional disturbance (ED). The extent of comorbidity of ED characteristics was related to the criterion for deviance and to each of the selected student variables, particularly school level and educational placement.…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Definitions, Disability Identification
Delta Coll., University Center, MI. Allied Health-Community Affairs. – 1986
This manual provides definitions of terms related to developmental disabilities and special education. The first section focuses on categorical areas of impairment, defining concepts such as educable mentally impaired, trainable mentally impaired, severely mentally impaired, severely multiply impaired, hearing impaired, visually impaired,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Definitions, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1980
The manual contains three classifications (impairments, disabilities, and handicaps), each relating to a different plane of experience consequent upon disease. Section 1 attempts to clarify the nature of health related experiences by addressing reponse to acute and chronic illness; the unifying framework for classification (principle events in the…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication Disorders, Definitions, Disabilities
Download full textAlberta Learning, Edmonton. Special Education Branch. – 2002
This guide is intended to assist school authorities in Alberta (Canada) to complete required Student Review Forms for students with severe disabilities. A Special Needs Profile form to determine eligibility for Severe Disabilities funding precedes information specific severe disability categories. These categories are: severe mental disability;…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Blindness, Case Studies, Deafness
Newkirk, Diane; And Others – 1978
The project report provides information relevant to the status, function, and effect of currently used definitions of handicapped children and the diagnostic methods used. An initial section serves as both an introduction to and summary of the process used during the project, and includes project conclusions. Section II contains analyses of…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
