Focusing on the exceptional child, this symposium contains a study which reports findings concerning the adjustment problems of the Malaysian visually handicapped student, by Chua Tee Tee, an abstract on adjustment and personality patterns in normal and problem children by Gurvinder Kaur Khaneja and Gopa Bharawaj, and an abstract of a study on contradictions within the self-concept of mentally retarded children, by Vasantha R. Patri. Findings concerning the visually handicapped Malaysian youth indicate that, as a group, they appear to have no serious emotional-social problems; more youth profess favorable than unfavorable behavioral traits. Because a sufficient number have some adjustment problems, remedial action appears warranted. With some exceptions, findings of the study comparing maladjusted and normal female adolescent students' adjustment and personality supported the hypotheses that adjustment and personality would emerge as two separate and distinct factors in both groups, adjustment and personality factors would show different correlation patterns in normal and problem children, and overall personality and adjustment scores of problem children would be different from those of normal children. The study of retarded children's self-concepts found significant differences in self-concepts of normal and retarded subjects; retarded youth tended to evaluate themselves more negatively than did normal youth and their self-concepts contained significantly more contradictions; the degree of contradiction was negatively related to intelligence level. (RH)