Listed in the handbook for teachers, administrators, and instructors of teacher education are suggestions for teaching the homebound and hospitalized physically and multiply handicapped children. The purposes of home and hospital teaching are given to include compensation for loss in-school experience and adjustment of instruction according to the student's needs and potential for meeting appropriate performance objectives. Covered are principles for establishing programs, initiation of services, the pupils to be served (such as the severely handicapped or convalescents from major surgery), the teacher-pupil ratio, aspects of long and short term teaching, qualifications and responsibilities of the teacher for the homebound and hospitalized, responsibilities of the regular teacher, responsibilities of the school principal and/or counselor, responsibilities of parents, and accountability and supervision. It is maintained that a student out of the educational mainstream for significant period will succeed only if his morale is kept high and his educators creatively provide learning opportunities involving instructional aids such as audio visual materials or hobbies. (MC)