I live in Indiana, and find it strange they have no recommended age for home alone yet, they do have an age requirement as to when a child can be left in the care of a sibling child, and that age is 11.
However, dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder.
ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT AND EDUCATION. Emotional disturbance (ED, here called emotional or behavioral disorder or EBD) is one of the categories of disability included under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act, also known as IDEA, 2004.REVALENCE OF EBD. According to the U.S. Department of Education (2005) and the National Research Council (2002), about 1% of students in public schools in the United States receive special education under the ED (EBD) category.