Used as an additional aid by the teacher, microelectronics can assist mentally and physically handicapped children to meet educational objectives that have been specifically agreed upon for the individual child. Microelectronics can help deaf children develop speech production, communication skills, and grammar and sentence construction; accommodate blind children with the use of portable reading aids, Braille and audio information centers, and text-processing systems; aid children with learning difficulties to develop thinking skills; and provide physically handicapped children with a means of accessing a variety of computer-assisted instructional (CAI) learning programs. It is difficult, however, to use microcomputers in helping non-communicative children who use Bliss symbols because of the difficulty in obtaining software, the amount of planning time and effort needed to use the software appropriately, and the lack of special technical support. Activities funded by the Microelectronics Education Programmme (MEP) in which the Council for Educational Technology (CET) has been involved include: curriculum development for deaf students; training for teachers, other staff, and parents of physically handicapped children; Special Education Microelectronics Resource Centres; consultancy centers on communication aids in education; and research on input/output devices software for the physically handicapped. Further reading resources are listed. (DJR)