The book presents 17 papers originally presented at a 1978 Texas conference on educational methods for deaf-blind and severely handicapped students, covering the areas of motor development, auditory assessment and hearing loss, communication, cognition, prevocational training, and functional living skills. Titles and authors include "An Overview of Normal and Abnormal Motor Functioning -- Implications for Educational Programing" (C. Stone), "Motor Development and Programing for the Deaf Blind, Severely/Profoundly Handicapped Child" (B. Rowe), "Some Aspects of Gross Motor Development" (M. Dodd), "Auditory Assessment" (B. Franklin), "Use of Impedance Measures to Predict Sensor-Neural Hearing Loss" (D. Harris), "Early Evaluation and Diagnosis of Hearing Loss and its Management" (M. Downs), "Auditory Perception and Training" (H. Weiner), "Beginning Communication -- Presymbolic Skills with Multihandicapped Children" (J. Burton), "Language Activities for the Higher-Functioning Deaf-Blind Children" (F. Carlson), "Communication Training for the Deaf-Blind" (J. Cooper), "The Development of Thinking" (H. Furth), "Application of Concepts of Sensorimotor Development to Cognitive Development of Deaf-Blind Children" (C. Robinson), "A Prevocational Perspective Maximizing all Aspects of Adjustment" (F. Simpson), "Prevocational Programming -- Panel Discussion" (Aaron et al), "Teaching Self-Help Skills -- A Developmental Approach" (P. Russell), "The Problems of the Child with Cerebral Palsy and its Relationship to Classroom Learning" (R. Haebig), and "How to Plan and Implement Feeding Programs for Multihandicapped Children" (P. Metcalf). (DLS)