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"An estimated 50 percent of juvenile delinquents have undetected learning disabilities, according to a frequently cited Educational Testing Service report.
"Thirty-one percent of learning disabled kids are arrested within three to five years out of school; 60 percent of kids in treatment for substance abuse are learning disabled; 62 percent of learning disabled kids are unemployed one year after graduating; and 35 percent of learning disabled kids drop out of high school, according to Wagner's 1991 National Longitudinal Study."
Statistics cited by Reed Ambler,
Santa Clara Superior Court Judge, in the
San Jose Mercury News, September 1998