EBD Blog is about Emotional and Behavioral Disorders of children and youths. In the US, this area of special education is often referred to as “emotional disturbance,” but we’re using the term EBD, as that one is more clearly descriptive and preferred by many leaders in the field. EBD Blog will also include content about related areas of disability, including Autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD or ADHD), and other similar topics. I (John Wills Lloyd) write most of the posts on EBD Blog; readers have had the good fortune of finding some original posts by guest blogger James M. Kauffman, too.
For fundamental information about EBD, a reader may consult an entry for Encarta that I wrote in the early 1990s. Here’s the lead:
Education of Students with Behavior Disorders, area in the field of special education that focuses on emotional or behavioral problems experienced by some children and adolescents. These problems disrupt relations with peers and adults and interfere with schooling. In the United States, school officials commonly identify students with these problems as having “serious emotional disturbance,” or behavior disorders. Estimates of the number of behavior disorders in the United States vary from 0.5 percent to over 20 percent of the population. Studies indicate that about 7 to 12 percent of U.S. students experience behavior disorders at some time during their school years. However, only about 1 percent of all students receive special education services for their problems. Others may receive services from community mental health agencies or they may receive private psychotherapy.
EBD Blog, which first appeared in January of 2005, originally ran from a server identified as johnl.edschool.virginia.edu, but I moved it to my own server a bit over a year after launching it. To correspond with me, write to John _at_ JohnWillsLloyd.com.
My friend and sometimes collaborator (and poker coach) Doug Cullinan says that I should straighten my tie before I allow folks to take pictures of me. That’s an old photo of me, when I had hair.
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