The phrase "emotionally disabled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who experiences significant emotional challenges that affect their daily functioning.
Example: "After years of therapy, she finally began to understand her emotionally disabled state and sought help to improve her quality of life."
Alternatives: "emotionally impaired" or "emotionally challenged."
"Emotionally disabled," she said.
It is not meant for the emotionally disabled or mentally ill, Ms. Matthews said.
The union, contending that Johnson was emotionally disabled and should have been placed on the disabled list, as a physically injured player is, filed a grievance and won.
But increasingly, thousands of families unilaterally enroll their learning-disabled, emotionally disabled or autistic children in private schools — often with staggeringly high tuitions — and then seek reimbursement.
Did Don Draper, the emotionally disabled advertising executive, actually cast aside his age-appropriate psychologist girlfriend, Faye Miller, and impulsively ask Megan, his beautiful young secretary of the easy manner and French Canadian heritage, to marry him?
The society runs a community center in Bedford-Stuyvesant that houses a number of programs, including the Long Life Information and Referral Network, a social service agency for the physically and emotionally disabled.
T4 Program, also called T4 Euthanasia Program, Nazi German effort framed as a euthanasia program to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people.
The school, run by the Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Service, offers beginning vocational instruction to students who may be learning disabled, emotionally disturbed or unable to succeed in a traditional classroom.
Instead, America must build on the past decade's accomplishments by tackling three important challenges.The first is to find new ways to help the children of those who are mildly disabled, emotionally disturbed, mentally slow or addicted to drugs or alcohol.
The Kayne Eraes Center, a nonprofit that runs a school and other educational services for emotionally and developmentally disabled children, was looking for a new leader and tried to recruit Dr. Scott D. Bowling, the president and chief executive of Exceptional Children's.
Even though there is no evidence beyond anecdote that its methods work, even though there are clear cases of harm, even though it is now clear that its employees will just follow orders no matter how bizarre, Massachusetts has cleared the Judge Rotenberg Center to use electric shocks on emotionally disturbed and disabled children for another year.
