The manual provides guidelines for developing individualized education programs (IEPs) and determining the educational placement of handicapped children in St. Louis County, Missouri. The introduction summarizes requirements of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) regarding the IEP provision. The next chapter examines developing, reviewing, and revising the IEP; the IEP committee meeting; and the content of the IEP plan. In the third chapter the IEP process is discussed in terms of development of total service plan, amendment of total service plan, evaluation of total service plan, and development of individual implementer plan. The final two chapters deal with the IEP in relation to program placements and procedural safeguards. A major portion of the document consists of the following appendixes: a listing of role responsibilities, form letters, a glossary of terms, guidelines for writing goals and objectives, suggestions of general approaches used to evaluate objectives, and a selected bibliography. (DB)