The Fernald School's program of remedial instruction for disadvantaged children began in 1966. As a facility of the Psychology Department at the University of California at Los Angeles, the school has been concerned since its founding in 1921 with the diagnosis and treatment of learning disorders, particularly those not due to mental retardation or severe neurological or emotional pathology. Their program for disadvantaged children described in this booklet, however, represents a departure from the school's previous restriction to clients from families that could afford tuition. Children from grades two through 11 are served by the program. Students selected are male, of average intelligence, and at least one and one-half years retarded in basic school skills. The disadvantaged students in the program are drawn from the mid-city area of Los Angeles. Two-thirds of the disadvantaged students are black, and the remaining one-third are Mexican-American or white. During the first academic year, 60 children were in the program; during each of the following two years, there were 80 students. The three factors that Fernald staff members see as differentiating the experience of students at Fernald from that at other schools are: (1) the degree to which the program is individualized; (2) the low student-teacher ratio; and, (3) the total-school environment, which results from these and other special characteristics. (Author/JM)