1: Will give a brief introduction to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.Section 2: Will highlight the common characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.Section 3: Will discuss ways how to deal with

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Ritienne Plum (22984 M)                                                              B.Ed Computing 2nd Year.

Introduction

From day to day, the call for inclusive education is becoming louder and louder.  According to the National Disability Survey, carried out in 2003, there are 518 students with special educational needs who are attending “normal schools”.  Note that this static is based on those students aged between 3 and 16, who are registered with the National Commission Persons with Disability.  The term inclusive education refers to an educational philosophy, which promotes the right and the need of those students with special educational needs to be integrated and educated in “regular classrooms”.  Students with special educational needs can be categorized under different forms of impairments.  This assignment will specifically focus on emotional and behavioral disorders.  It will attempt to investigate its characteristics and to discuss the appropriate inclusive arrangements needed to help those students with emotional and behavioral disorders.  The above topics will be discussed as follows:

Section 1:   Will give a brief introduction to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.

Section 2:  Will highlight the common characteristics of Emotional and Behavioral       Disorders.

Section 3: Will discuss ways how to deal with students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.

 

Emotional and Behavioral Disorder.

From time to time, every child faces emotional difficulties.  Feelings of sadness, loneness and extreme emotions are part of growing up.  Such problems are more common during the transition from primary to secondary school and during adolescence.  Also, one will surely face some emotional difficulties in times when the family is under going some changes such as: death, new baby, etc.  These are normal changes in behavior, which are overcome with some professional help or as time passes by.  However, some children may develop inappropriate emotional and behavioral responses to situations in their lives that persist over time. Identifying an emotional or behavioral disorder is not easy.  One cannot positively state that there is something going “wrong” in the brain, which is causing the child to act in a particular way.

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An emotional or behavioral disorder can be defined as a situation where the child's behavioral or emotional responses are very different from those generally accepted from children of his/her age.  Nuclear medicine has shown that the way the information is received and processed by the brain is different for children with emotional or behavioral disorders.  Generally, children with emotional or behavioral disorders can be categorized into two groups, those who are continuously frightening other children and those who are being frightened by other neighborhood children.

Identify emotional or behavioral problems is not easy as identifying difficulties related ...

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