This study explores the relationship between self concept, visual perception, and disabilities. The Ss were fifty seventh and fifty ninth grade student selected randomly from an integrated and socially balanced senior high school. The Tennessee Self Concept Scales were used as a measure self concept; the Spatial Visual ization section of the Multiple Aptitude test was used as a measure of visual perceptions; and the paragraph meaning, spelling, and language portions of the Stanford Achievement Test were used as measures of disabilities. The twenty-four variables yielded from the data were then submitted to both factor analysis and multiple correlation. The hypothesis that self concept and visual perception are related to disabilities was not clearly supported by the data. Further replication is suggested using a measure of reading self con cept rather than general self concept. NUMEROUS INVESTIGATIONS have suggested a relationship between self concept and (2, 3, 5, 10, 14, 19, 21, 31) . Equally numerous are studies that support the relationship between visual perception and (1,7,8,9,11,12,15,18,22, 23,24,25,27,28,29,30) . The present study is an attempt to explore the possible interaction between self concept and visual perception in relationship to disabilities. Combs (4 ) has suggested that the basic motivation of all human behavior is to maintain and enhance an adequate self concept. Hence, if an individual believes himself to be a poor reader he will attempt to main tain this self image regardless of his ability to read. Lecky (17) calls this self consistency. He writes A standard is a conception that a person main tains because he has accepted it as a part of his personality. Standards need not be admirable, even from the standpoint of the person who main tains them so long as he believes them to be valid_If he defines himself as a poor speller, the misspelling of a certain proportion of the words which he uses for him becomes a moral issue. He misspells words for the same reason he refuses to be a thief. That is, he must endeavor to be consistent with his conception of himself (17:103) . Lecky goes on to report a study of spelling which suggests that individuals misspell about the same number of words per page regardless of the difficulty of the material. However, the same students when taught a foreign language were found to be good spellers. Since spelling and both involve a visual perceptualization, could it be possible that many poor readers like the poor spellers in Lecky's study are simply trying to maintain self consistency by manipulating their visual perceptual ability? METHOD