Eligibility requirements for services are taken from the State of Alaska’s Special Education Handbook. Children can qualify “emotional disturbance.”

To be eligible for special education and related services as a child with emotional disturbance, a child must:

• Have a condition that exhibits one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time and to a marked degree that adversely affects educational performance: (1) an inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual, sensory, or health factors; (2) an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers; (3) inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances; (4) a generally pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression; or (5) a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems.
• Require special facilities, equipment or methods to make his or her educational program effective; and
• Be diagnosed as emotionally disturbed by a psychiatrist or psychologist; and
• Be certified by a group consisting of qualified professionals and a parent of the child as qualifying for and needing special education services.

Note: The term includes children who are schizophrenic but does not include children who are socially maladjusted unless it is determined that they have an emotional disturbance. It is important to distinguish children demonstrating an emotional disturbance from children with other behavior problems. Appendix J provides some clarification of terminology to assist in making these distinctions.

Students meeting the state requirements for classification under emotional disturbance may be eligible for assistance from the Emotional Disturbance staff. Assistance to districts in the rural and remote portions of the state is provided both on and off site.

Staff training through on-site, regional and state wide in-services related to best practices for educating students with emotional and behavioral disorders:

• Functional Behavioral Assessment
• Positive Behavioral Support
• Social Skills Curricula
• Anger/Stress Management (for students and staff)
• Inclusion Strategies
• Transition Issues
• Assistance to districts in the development of appropriate educational programs.
• Assistance to districts in the development of school/district wide behavior management programs.
• Information and resources for students with behavioral and emotional difficulties through the agency and assistive technology lending libraries, and other local and national resources.
• Assistance to the district with coordination of appropriate specialized services and community resources.
• Assistance to the district in the development of IEP and Transition goals, objectives and activities.
• Assistance with classroom design and procedures.
• Provision of information and resources on specific mental health issues.

Staff Members

This is a social skill curriculum that was developed by the Special School District of St. Louis County. This curriculum provides a format and suggested activities to teach social skills to individual students and in small groups. The curriculum consists of 92 social skills, which are categorized into six domains (i.e., initial social skills, skills for expressing feelings, social relationship skills, classroom skills, decision-making and problem solving skills, and conflict management skills).Also, sample class lesson plans are included so teachers will have an example of how to teach school and classroom rules within the context of school-wide behavioral expectations.

To download, right click (or control-click on Mac) on the link below, and save the file to your computer. Then use your own un-zip program (WinZip or Stuffit) to open the archive.

PBIS Compendium

FBA/BIP Template

The following Data Assessment presentation has been developed using the PowerPoint program. It can be downloaded and used with an LCD projector or easily transferred onto transparencies for overhead projection. The presentation time can vary from one hour for a lecture presentation to three or more hours for an activity-based presentation with group discussion. Detailed presenters notes are provided supporting the important information highlighted on each slide.

View Text-Only Version of Data Assessment on the web (suitable for screen-readers).

Download:

• Powerpoint file:
  Data Assessment Powerpoint Presentation
• PDF
  Data Assessment Presentation PDF

This is a social skill curriculum that was developed by the Special School District of St. Louis County. This curriculum provides a format and suggested activities to teach social skills to individual students and in small groups. The curriculum consists of 92 social skills, which are categorized into six domains (i.e., initial social skills, skills for expressing feelings, social relationship skills, classroom skills, decision-making and problem solving skills, and conflict management skills). Also, sample class lesson plans are included so teachers will have an example of how to teach school and classroom rules within the context of school-wide behavioral expectations.

To download, right click (or control-click on Mac) on the link below, and save the file to your computer. Then use your own un-zip program (WinZip or Stuffit) to open the archive.

PBIS Compendium

FBA/BIP Template