The newsletter describes the staff and training activities of the Teaching Research Infant and Child Center which consists of two national model centers--Early Education for the Handicapped Model and a Severely Handicapped Education Model. It is reported that staff training procedures developed at the Boulder (Montana) River School and Hospital resulted in a set of 11 basic institution staff training procedures which include provision for the scheduling and training of staff which are new to a cultural unit before they join that unit and requirment of administrative staff to participate in the demonstration center training. Reported is replication and expansion of the training model at two facilities, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon) and Eastern Oregon Training Center (Pendelton, Oregon). (SB)