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Chapter 8
Learners with emotional or behavioral disorders
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conduct disorder | A disorder characterized by overt, aggressive, disruptive behavior, or covert antisocial acts such as stealing, lying, and fire setting; may include both overt and covert acts. |
| Externalizing behavior | Acting-out behavior; aggressive or disruptive behavior that is observable as behavior directed toward others. |
| Internalizing behavior | Acting-in behavior, anxiety, fearfulness, withdrawal, and other indications of an individual's mood or internal state. |
| Comorbidity | Co-occurrence of two or more conditions in the same individual. |
| Schizophrenia | A chronic and severe mental disorder thar affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. |
| Aggression | Behavior that intentionally causes others harm or that elicits escape or avoidance responses from others. |
| Enuresis | urinary incontinence; wetting oneself. |
| Encopresis | Bowel incontinence; soiling oneself. |
| Zero tolerance | A school policy, supported by federal and state laws, that certain things will be punished regardless of any excuse. |
| Manifestation Determination (MD) | Determination that a student's misbehavior is or is not a manifestation of a disability. |
| Functional behavioral assessment (FBA) | Evaluation that consists of finding out the consequences and setting events that maintain inappropriate behaviors. |
| Positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) | Systematic use of the science of behavior to find ways of supporting desirable behavior rather than punishing the undesirable behavior. |
| Interim alternative educational setting (IAES) | A temporary placement outside the general education for students whose behavior is extremely problematic, but in which their education is continued. |