Ten issues of the 1997 newsletter of TASH comprise this document. An issue typically contains news items, a column by the organization's executive director, reports from special interest groups, legislative testimony, conference information, and several major articles, such as the following: "Multicultural Perspectives: Excerpts from Opening Plenary Session Remarks of Beth Henry"; "Celebration of Twenty Years of Circle of Friends" (Marsha Forest and others); "A Reflection of Parent Empowerment" (M. Carmen S. Ramirez); "School Inclusion and Social Relationships in Italy" (Carol Berrigan and Dennis Taylor); "India's Story: How IDEA Protected Her Rights" (Barbara and M. Wayne Dyer); "Frequently Asked Questions about Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act"; "Isn't It about Achieving Balance? Participation in Content-Area Classes and Community-Based Instruction in Secondary Schools" (John McDonnell); "Inclusion in the Public Schools: Strategies for Parents" (Mark Partin); "What We Want: By Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered, the New Self-Advocacy Organization" (Rick Betts and others); "The Underachievement of Supported Employment: A Call for Reinvestment" (David Mank); "Positive Behavioral Support with Families" (Joseph M. Lucyshyn and others); "Take Risks, Ride the River" (Barbara Buswell); "No Time for Silence" (Douglas Biklen); "Blending Best Practices for Young Children: Inclusive Early Childhood Programs" (Marquita Grenot-Scheyer and others); "One Community's Efforts To Promote Child Care Inclusion" (Dianne Apter and Pam Walker); "Dave Hingsburger's Hot Fudge Sunday'" (Dave Hingsburger); "Practical and Useful Tools for Change" (Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint); "Standing in Support, Not Control: Training toward Self-Reliance, Inc." (Pam Walker); "Conversion from Facility-Based to Community-Based Employment Supports: Preliminary Results of a National Study" (Pat Rogan and others); "Why Are We Reinstitutionalizing People during the Day?" (Leslie L. Wilson); "People First Members Work To Tear Down Institution Walls"; "Supported Employment: Ten Years After" (Michael West and others); "Children with Disabilities in Youth Sports" (Cynthia Burkhour); "Inclusion as a Force for School Renewal" (John O'Brien and Connie Lyle O'Brien); "Solution Circle: Getting Unstuck: A Creative Problem Solving Tool" (Jack Pearpoint and Marsha Forest); "Gay Man with Disabilities Troubled by Life's Barriers" (Anne Harris); "Inclusion and the 1997 IDEA Amendments" (Frank Laski); "Self-Determination and the Search for Community" (Dennis Harkins); "Self-Determination: Transferring Agency Control by Re-Thinking Its Role" (James Dehem and Lisa Chapman); "Self-Determination--A Family Perspective" (Cameron Tease); "Self-Advocates Discuss What Self-Determination Has Meant to Them". (DB)