Describe the characteristics of children and youth with EBD
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Children and youth with EBD tend to have average or below-average intellectual
capacity, reflected in challenges mastering academic, social, and adaptive skills. Social
and adaptive skill challenges are manifested in poor relationships, inappropriate
classroom behaviors, bullying perpetration and victimization, social fears, depression and
other mood disorders, conduct disorders, and/or delinquency. Students with EBD often
experience significant academic deficits and finish high school at much lower rates than
the general population and students with other disabilities.
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A. 2% B. 5% C. 10% D. 20%
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a) most Americans say sexual orientation should be a factor in a person's job performance. b) they are seen as experiencing the most discrimination of any group in the USA. c) a majority of them stated they had never faced any form of workplace discrimination due to their sexual orientation. d) nearly one-half of them had been fired because of their sexual orientation.
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