A program for children with communication disorders (autistic-like behaviors) has been developed by the Kent (Ohio) Public Schools' Special Education program and is intended to eventually integrate the children served into other special education classrooms and, ultimately, into the home school special education program. Among the program's objectives are to provide an educational program for 18 autistic children, to provide individual and group guidance for parents of autistic children, and to help determine the percent of autistic children that are educable but are misdiagnosed as trainable by individual IQ tests. The diagnostic/prescriptive instructional program provides language centered training in academic, psychomotor, and social-affective skills. (SB)