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ceptance within the ranks of special education. Schultz, Hirshoren, Manton, and
Henderson (1971) determined that by the late 1960s 41 of the states used either
“emotionally disturbed” or “emotionally handicapped” as the terminology within
their state definition; only three of the reporting states did not use the expression
“emotional-emotionally” in their definition. However, there now are some reasons
to believe that reliance upon the term emotional distu
