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The article discusses several research papers related to crippling conditions and special health problems which were published between June 1962 and June 1965. The extent of illness among children under age 15 was reported by two researchers in 1963 from data taken from the U.S. National Health Survey, collected by household interviews from 1959 to 1961. Several follow-up studies have been made on premature infants. A group of researchers in 1964 examined 319 premature and 32 full-term infants neurologically and psychologically two and one-half years after birth. In an analysis of the extensive literature on intrauterine occurrences of developmental anomalies and their known etiological factors, a researcher in 1963 concluded that approximately 1 percent of all live-born infants are certified as being congenitally malformed and that this incidence is understated because of the inability to detect some anomalies at birth. He found some support for the assertion that frequency and severity of abnormality decrease from the earliest embryonic stages onward.

This article reports on the education of children with motor handicaps and with both acute and chronic health problems. Studies on prevalence of crippling conditions show a population which is fluid, influenced by medical research and mobile with positive and probably etiologic relationships between low socioeconomic status and prenatal and paranatal abnormalities. Throughout the U.S., services for crippled children are being expanded generally. According to the author of this article, the number of children receiving care under the state federal crippled children's program has increased 38 percent between 1950 and 1956 compared with a 19-percent general population increase; the number of children with orthopedica disabilities increased 22 percent. Most obvious decreases are among conditions caused by infection. Sources of information on the number of handicapped children needing services included the U.S. Children's Bureau.

Presents several letters to the editor published in the April 1, 1964 issue of the periodical "American Sociological Review." Information about lawyers of Detroit, Michigan; Findings of a research on disabled people; Information related to evaluation done by disabled children.