Sentences with phrase «disruptive children spend»

Disruptive children spend less time on classroom tasks, receive less instruction from teachers, grow to like school less, and attend school less often than their more emotionally well - adjusted peers.

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Health service resources spent on children with conduct disorder are considerable: 30 % of child consultations with general practitioners are for behaviour problems, 8 and 45 % of community child health referrals are for behaviour disturbances - with an even higher level at schools for children with special needs and in clinics for children with developmental delay, where challenging behaviour is a common problem.9 Psychiatric disorders are present in 28 % of paediatric outpatient referrals.10 Social services departments expend a lot of effort trying to protect disruptive children whose parents can no longer cope without hitting or abusing them.