The document presents five issues of the PRISE Reporter, a newsletter of the Pennsylvania Resources and Information Center for Special Education devoted to issues and happenings in the field of special education. Separate issues treat the following disabilities: mental retardation, health impairments/learning disabilities, emotional disturbances, visual handicaps, physical handicaps, and speech/hearing handicaps. In addition to one feature article, each issue presents a section on happenings and programs in Pennsylvania; a research brief; and reviews of tests, current books and citations, instructional material, and new films. Feature articles treat such aspects as the educability of the retarded, issues related to learning disabilities, the emotionally disturbed adolescent, the unique needs of severely visually handicapped pupils in regular school programs, the challenge of the physically handicapped student without speech, and barrier free educational environments for the hearing impaired. (DLS)