Legislation.

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.