Final year achievements of a 3 year federally funded early education program for handicapped children in rural Montana are recounted. Noted are personnel aspects of the project, staff development activities and responses, objectives of technical assistance, child find data, and dissemination and demonstration activities. A section on program evaluation reviews problems encountered in the evaluation process. Results of intervention are reported for 20 children, including that 95% of them demonstrated gains over the anticipated rate of growth in at least four developmental areas. Eleven major project objectives are listed in terms of procedure, outcome, and evaluation. (CL)