Sentences with phrase «emotional disturbance categories»

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A follow up study found this result applied across the five disability classifications studied, notably including emotional disturbance and intellectual disability, stigmatizing categories in which black boys are over represented in the aggregate, unadjusted data.

Government policies exclude inadequate instruction, cultural and social factors, and emotional disturbance, because there are other categories in special education or other services for these children, not because their academic difficulties are different or because these excluded children need different types of interventions.

New statistics compiled on each state show both over - and under - representation of minorities in the categories for «mental retardation,» «specific learning disabilities,» and «emotional disturbance.»

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

* The most prevalent disability category of students ages 6 through 21 was Specific Learning Disabilities (39.2 %), Speech or Language Impairments (17.6 %), Other Health Impairments (14.4 %), Autism (8.6 %), Intellectual Disabilities (7.0 %), and Emotional Disturbance (5.9 %)

As mentioned, emotional disturbance is one of the categories of disability specified in IDEA.

Students eligible for special education services under the category of emotional disturbance may have IEPs that include psychological or counseling services.