Behavioural Exceptionalities

What is it?

A learning disorder characterized by specific behaviour problems over a significant period of time, and to such a marked degree, that is begins to adversely affect educational performance, and that may be accompanied by one or more of the following:

a) An inability to build or to maintain interpersonal relationships;

b) Excessive fears or anxieties;

c) A tendency to compulsive reaction; or

d) An inability to learn that cannot be traced to intellectual, sensory, or other health factors or any combination of these factors

Examples of Behaviour Exceptionalities may include: ADHD, Anxiety Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Retrieved from: Teachers' Gateway to Special Education