Eight discussions of parent participation cover the following areas: dimensions of family involvement in early childhood education; the relationship of the parent, child, and professional staff; parent reactions to the identification of handicaps and their involvement in early education; parent participation in a program of behavior modification for physically handicapped children; the use of parent meetings and parent educators who visit homes to assist parents in helping children to learn; a program for training mothers to instruct their infants at home; a sociological perspective on counseling parents of handicapped children; and early diagnosis of deafness and parent counseling. (RJ)