Nine conference papers focus on the following topics related to the deaf-blind and their education: pitfalls in the coordination of assessment and treatment of handicapped children, promotion of adaptive patterns in the handicapped child, use of hearing in deaf-blind children, etiology of hearing loss, and the educator's assessment of visual…

Eight papers on the diagnosis and treatment of handicapped children comprise proceedings of a conference for Directors of Special Education, past and present Regional Resource Center Directors, and the staff of the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. E. Martin explains the rationale of Regional Resource Centers. A systems analysis of the…