Special Education in Contemporary Society
Sixth Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter 9, you should be able to:
- Describe the issues surrounding our understanding of emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Compare clinically derived and statistically derived systems for classifying emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Explain how society has historically dealt with persons with emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Identify biological and psychosocial risk factors of emotional or behavioral disorders.
- List the learning and social characteristics typical of students who exhibit emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Describe contemporary approaches for assessing pupils with emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Discuss academic and behavioral interventions often used with individuals with emotional or behavioral disorders.
- Summarize educational services for persons with emotional or behavioral disorders across the life span.