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

learning disabled adolescent and young adult as the target pop-ulation. The major res po nsibility of the Institute is to de-velop effective means of identifying learning disabled popula-tions at the secondary level and to construct interventions that will have an effect upon school performance and life 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.