Twelve papers focus on issues involving severe behavior disorders in the schools and autism. The following papers are included: "Behavioral Ecology--A Unifying Strategy for the '80s" (F. Hewett); "Academic Skill Development--The Promise of Modeling Strategies" (R. Gable, J. Hendrickson); "Future Directions in Self-Control Research" (R. Rueda); "Allocating Opportunity to Learn as a Basis for Academic Remediation--A Developing Model for Teaching" (C. Greenwood, et al.); "Establishing Criteria for Social Behaviors" (K. Howell); "Educational Setting for the Primary Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect with Adolescents" (S. Bavolek); "Behavioral Contracting with Behaviorally Disordered and Delinquent Children and Youth--An Analysis of the Clinical and Experimental Literature" (R. Rutherford, Jr., L. Polsgrove); "Prediction of Post-Discharge School Adjustment from Social and Academic Gains during Psychiatric Hospitalization" (S. Forness, et al.); "Instruction for Autistic Children--Some Critical Problems and Possible Solutions" (R. Neel, F. Billingsley); "Classroom Hearing Assessment--An Operant Training Procedure for the Non-Verbal Autistic Child" (T. Scruggs, et al.); "Transfer of Training in Severely Autistic and Severely Retarded Children" (M. Kaufman, P. Alberto); and "Who's Crazy?" (C. Nelson). (CL)