LEARNING-DISABILITIES, CRIME, DELINQUENCY, AND SPECIAL-EDUCATION PLACEMENT

This paper explores the influence of learning disabilities on the part icipation of youth in the juvenile justice system. The important role early placement of learning disabled youth in public school and in cor rectional education programs is explained and discussed. In addition, social and academic skill remediation is suggested as a means of preve nting learning disabled youth from dropping out of school before incar ceration, or of returning to crime upon release from incarceration.