The document is designed to facilitate the planning and administrations of programs for handicapped children in Iowa by providing a listing of the Iowa Departmental Rules which are enclosed in boxes throughout the document and followed by explanations and interpretations. The classes of children eligible for special education and the services to be made available to them are described. Examined are program dimensions such as planning, approval and reimbursement, records and reports, personnel, pupil identification, classrooms, summer programs, and transportation. Requirements such as class size and diagnostic criteria for sponsoring programs for children who have physical, communication, auditory, emotional, social, visual or intellectual handicaps are discussed. The skills and tasks appropriate to directors of special education programs, special consultants, school psychologists, school social workers, itinerant teachers, and resource room teachers are explained. The document employs a topical rather than an ordinal organization. (GW)