Definition of Ebd Prevalence of Ebd Assessment and Identification Characteristics, Variations, and Subgroups Interventions and Instruction Issues in Assessment and Education

Emotional disturbance (ED, here called emotional or behavioral disorder or EBD) is one of the categories of disability included under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, also known as IDEA, 2004. Every teacher will have at least one student who is extraordinarily difficult because of his or her behavior, simply due to the fact that most students with EBD have not been identified and placed in special education. Most of the students who are the topic of this entry are in general education classrooms, where they typically cause serious and legitimate concern for their teachers and often for their classroom peers and school administrators as well. This has been true throughout the history of compulsory education, as James Kauffman and Timothy Landrum (2006) have observed.