EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF HIGH-SCHOOL SENIORS WITH LEARNING-DISABILITIES

Using the National Longitudinal Study of 1988, this study investigated the educational and occupational aspirations of high school seniors w ith and without learning disabilities. Effect sizes showed differences between the aspirations of young people with learning and their peers without disabilities, with the latter holding higher aspirations-for both educational and occupational outcomes. No practical differences w ere found for female versus male adolescents with learning disabilitie s. Adolescents with learning disabilities who aspired to a high school diploma or less, and those who aspired to an advanced college degree, epoused lower occupational aspirations than did their peers without d isabilities.