These conference proceedings deal with an interdisciplinary approach to reducing handicapping conditions and ensuring integration of and equal participation by people with disabilities in all aspects of community life. Papers from plenary sessions cover such topics as psychological and social aspects of rehabilitation, research methodology in special education, the role of randomized trials, medicolegal assessment of residual disability and employment handicap, trends in the adjustment of disabled people to the marketplace, etc. In addition, papers from working groups cover the following areas: "Critical Evaluation of Functional Improvements in Respect of Mobility, Manual Dexterity, Activities of Daily Living,""Use of Prostheses, Orthoses, and Technical Aids,""Stroke,""Evaluation of Teaching Methods, Programmes and Material in Special Education,""Behavior Modification and Therapy,""Methods of Changing the Social Environment on Purpose,""Pain Syndromes," and "Free Papers" on concentration deficit intervention, return to work after coronary artery bypass surgery, rehabilitation after hip replacement, perceptual evaluation in occupational therapy, mobility training following brain trauma, prediction of the range of hand positions available to a patient with movement restrictions at the joints of the upper limb, and others. (JDD)