Focusing on expanding fields in junior college and adult reading programs, the 35 articles in this volume were drawn from the sixteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1966. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: an interdisciplinary approach to the identification and remediation of severe reading disabilities, the retrieval of learning sets by the external display of reading materials, simulation in reading, college reading improvement programs, the ideal study environment for university students, trends in adult reading, counseling and reading skills for the terminal student, educational technology, reading research, Job Corps reading programs, reading and cognition, a psychology of reading, reading programs at the secondary level, the "interjacent" student, teaching Braille to the blind, group guidance and reading improvement, adult literacy programs, lifetime reading, and reading diagnosis. (FL)