An Analysis and Synthesis of Social Lives of Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders
The social skills in children with emotional/behavioral disorders (E/BD) are lacking and these skills are needed to face life after graduation. “To a very great degree, the social lives of children define their worlds and are essential to their healthy development” (Panacek and Dunlap 2003). A question that should be addressed concerning students with E/BD is how many normal social interactions and relationships will these students have if they are placed in self-contained classrooms? Will these students adjust to “normal” life if they are never given the chance to be around the “real” world of people? An analysis of two articles concerning students with E/BD and the self-contained classroom will be addressed with a synthesis of these two articles combined.
