EDDT™

Emotional Disturbance Decision Tree™

Purpose: Assesses emotional disturbance from the teacher’s perspective

Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration, E-Manual

Age range: 5 years to 18 years

Time: 15-20 minutes; 10 minutes to score

DETAILS:

The first instrument of its kind to provide a standardized approach to the assessment of emotional disturbance (ED), the EDDT encompasses all the federal criteria and addresses the broad emotional and behavioral nuances of children who may require special education services for ED.

Features and Benefits

• From the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (2002) and the reauthorization of IDEA (2004), the federal criteria mandate that certain conditions be present in order to receive services but don’t provide assessment guidelines. The EDDT includes five sections that correlate with the specific components of the federal criteria, enabling you to work through each criterion one by one.

• Because the criteria specify that socially maladjusted children can’t qualify for services unless they are both socially maladjusted and emotionally disturbed, the EDDT treats social maladjustment as a supplemental trait and assesses it separately from ED.