The Inclusion of Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders into the Public Schools

By adl2262

  • Asylums

    People with Emotional and Bhevaorial Disorders were placed in asylums, and were considered insane. They lived in their excrements, and were somtimes chained to the wall.

  • Reforms

    Dorothea Dix campaigned for more humane treatment for people placed in these asylums, and to change the way they lived.

  • Specialization

    Educating students with EBD became a specialization, and the first priavte school for students was founded.

  • Congress

    Congress passed P.L 88-164 which provded funding for teacher preparation for students with EBD.

  • Inlcusion

    A mjaority of students are now being educated in public school special education classrooms, and the treatment now focuses on education, prevention, and early id.