The book offers 14 papers presented at two conferences on assessment and intervention with handicapped infants, sponsored by the Western States Technical Assistance Resource. Titles and authors include: "Neonatal Diagnosis of the Neurologically Handicapped" (M. Coleman); "Principles of Infant Assessment" (J. Swanson); "Focus on the Parent-Infant Dyad" (J. Kelly); "Developmental Screening Overview" (J. Meier); "Legal/Ethical Issues in Early Intervention" (W. Dussault); "Early Motor Development--Assessment and Intervention" (M. Swanson); "Infant Cognition--Considerations for Assessment Tools" (B. Darby); "Communication Development, Assessment, and Intervention" (N. Nichols); "Social Development and Assessment" (P. Doyle); "Methods of Assessing Mother-Infant Interactions" (C. Ramey); "Assessment of Visually Impaired Infants" (R. DuBose); "Assessment of the Young Hearing-Impaired Child" (M. Thompson); "Infant Learning Program For Down's Syndrome" (V. Dmitriev); and "Early Intervention--From Research to Practice" (C. Ramey et al.). A selected bibliography is also included. (DLS)