Twelve papers from the 1979 International Symposium on Early Identification and Intervention Practices focus on theoretical perspectives as well as on implications and applications. The following titles and authors are represented: "Perspectives in Early Identification and Intervention--Keynote Address" (V. Shipman); "Preschool Screening--Ready? Set? Go!" (J. Palfrey); "Problem and Promise in Early Identification--Children with Special Needs" (G. Morgan); "Early Identification and Intervention" (S. Wolfendale); "The Prediction of Reading Failure--A Review and Critique" (A. Silver); "The Risk of Normality" (R. Sumner); "Identification and Intervention--A European, Particularly Scandinavian, Perspective" (K. Stukat); "Problems of Prediction in Early Identification" (G. Morgan);"Some Issues in the Implementation of an Early Identification Procedure" (T. Bryans); "The Development of a Screening Procedure for an Early Education Project--The Pediatric Examination of Educational Readiness (PEER)" (J. Palfrey); "The Windsor Early Identification Project Revisited" (K. O'Bryan); and "Monitoring the Child's Learning Style" (D. Stott). (SB)