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The article provides information related to the Council for Exceptional Children during the 1964 to 1965 fiscal year in the U.S. Indications showed notable a growth and development of the organization and the profession during the year in review. Membership growth represented the largest increase in the Council's history. Also, the fiscal year saw the organization of 36 new local chapters. Various business and professional meetings were held by the Council's eight divisions during the annual convention in Portland.

The article reports on developments related to the education of exceptional children in the U.S. In December 1965, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) conducted its first special national conference entitled "The Effective Use of Federal Legislation in the Education of Exceptional Children," in Chicago. More than 300 special educators and general administrators attended the event and spent three days securing information from U.S. Office of Education and Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare staff, listening to national speakers, and engaging in workshops designed to effect implementation of federal legislation and to point out existing gaps in the present structure of federal legislation. At the CEC convention in Toronto, the U.S. Senate staff and the Office of Education staff considered the involvement of CEC members in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.