Using a qualitative design, this study offers an understanding of the lived experience of students with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), learning disability (LD), or traumatic brain injuries (TBI) who are integrating into an academic community within a higher education institution located in the southern United States. Additionally,…

Direct and indirect intervention strategies involving family, peers, and college faculty and administration can prevent the learning disabled student from being severely maladjusted in the college environment. The terminology of primary prevention is defined and potential problems of specific disabilities identified. (Author/CB)

Ten University of Montevallo (Alabama) students diagnosed as having learning disabilities were interviewed concerning their feelings about being labeled learning disabled, their strategies for coping with the disability, their outlook for the future, advice for other learning-disabled students, and services offered by the university. Eight of the…