Disabilities is supported by a contract (#300-77-0494) with the

ucation and the Bureau of Child Research, has specified the learning disabled adolescent and young adult as the target pop-ulation. The major responsibility of the Institute is to de-velop effective means of identifying learni ng disabled popula-tions at the secondary level and to construct interventions t hat will have an effect upon school performance and l·ife adjustment. Many areas of research have been designed to study the problems of LD adolescents and young adults in both school and non-school settings (e.g., employment, juvenile justice, military, etc.