The objective of this project was to increase the quantity and quality of research and available information on the education of disadvantaged youth, through conferences and seminars, consultation services, and the development of the Information Retrieval Center on the Disadvantaged (later ERIC-IRCD). Proceedings of conferences in the following areas have been published: biosocial factors in the development and learning of disadvantaged youth; community and family services (ED 026 436); experimental analysis of behavior (ED 026 435); educational remediation and rehabilitation (ED 026 437); the role of the speech pathologist in the management of language difficulties; social change and the role of the behavioral scientist (ED 021 908); school desegregation and integration (ED 015 989); language development (ED 027 346) and an annotated language bibliography (ED 026 414); and research dissemination and training (ED 026 440). (NH)