Emotional and Behavioral Disorders is a phrase used in educational circles to refer to students with ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, Severe Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Eating Disorders, Autism, and Schizophrenia
John Wills Lloyd wants to help from readers:
Help me identify important research questions about interventions for students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. As I noted in a parallel post on LD Blog, these need to be BIG IDEA questions. What do teachers and parents need to know about how to help students with EBD?
Examples (just for provoking discussion):
- Do consultation teams have greater benefits than school-wide behavior plans in reducing problem behavior?
- Do students with EBD benefit differentially from highly structured classroom arrangements?
- What procedures produce the best outcomes for students with EBD when they are 25 years old?
- How can teachers monitor progress in student behavior across time, a la CBM for academic performance?
- What specific competencies make teachers more or less successful in promoting learning by students with EBD?
Please think about issues that are balanced between general and explicitly testable. This is just a little crowd sourcing inquiry.
I hope your suggestions will illustrate ideas that actually can be investigated using rigorous scientific methods. Finding the fundamental causes of EBD, although an important concept, is off base for this thread. I’m hoping to talk about the fundamental actions that educators can undertake.
Don't answer here! Go to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Blog (EBDblog) and leave your comment there.
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