This study examined the feasibility of an instructional management program for learning disabled, incarcerated youths. It compared peer tutors and learning disabilities teachers as implementers of a computational mathematics program for incarcerated, learning disabled juvenile delinquents. Thirty-eight learning disabled juvenile delinquents ranging in age from 12 to 17 years and ranging in grade from seventh to eleventh were instructed for eight weeks. The instructional management of learning disabled, juvenile delinquents using peer tutors was found to be a workable alternative when individualizing a computational mathematics program for these students.
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