Emotional Disturbance

Children with emotional disabilities need tools to help them cope and succeed

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Children and youth with emotional disturbance frequently require and receive services from a variety of agencies that apply different eligibility criteria. These young people are also quite diverse in terms of their needs and strengths. The students present with a complex range of disabilities, from conduct disorder to schizophrenia. Within this statistically and diagnostically diverse population, females appear to be underrepresented, and African Americans appear to be overrepresented. The following paragraphs elaborate on service eligibility for and the characteristics of these students.