Dropouts with Learning Disabilities: What Happens to Them as Young Adults?

The adult adjustment of 101 dropouts with learning disabilities (LD), whose graduating class had been out of school for 1 year, was investigated in terms of employment rate, occupational status, hours worked, wages, and benefits; vocational training, postsecondary education, and usefulness of high school; instructional model used; gender; and comparison with LD students from same class who graduated. (Author/JDD)