Emotional Disturbance
We’ve chosen to use the term “emotional disturbance” in
this fact sheet because that is the term used in the nation’s special education
law, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
IDEA defines emotional disturbance as follows:
“…a condition exhibiting one or more of the following
characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that
adversely affects a child’s educational performance:
(A) An inability to learn that cannot be explained by
intellectual, sensory, or health factors.
(B) An inability to build or maintain satisfactory
interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers.
(C) Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under
normal circumstances.
(D) A general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression.
(E) A tendency to develop physical symptoms or fears
associated with personal or school problems.”
Such students might appear in many of our classes. They shouldn't be ignored as some teachers might do they should attain help.
ReplyDeleteAnd the good and intersting thing is to help them and have a good result at the end.
really now a days we might face such cases in most of our classes and as Hiba said we must not ignore them because for sure they need us more than any other person.
ReplyDeleteWe need to always consider this diversity in the classes to involve all and get higher achievement from them...
ReplyDeleteThese students should definitely got professional help, but at the same time they should not feel like they are intruders and alone!
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic, we had for our group! It is really important to know what are the reasons behind these emotional disturbances. The teacher should be in on it as well... and should know different techniques with dealing with such students because they need different way of interacting with them... The students should have professional help, from professional teachers...
ReplyDeleteWe need always to help these group of students since they already founds in each class so as teachers we must not ignore them and we should know the effective strategies inorder to deal with them.
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