COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

PART X

Education and Training of the Handicapped and H.R. 7217,

Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975

HEARINGS HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

APRIL 9 AND 10, 1975, AND JUNE 9, 1975

Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
CARL D. PERKINS, Chairman

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR

CARL D. PERKINS, Kentucky, Chairman

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CONTENTS

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Hearings held in Washington, D.C.:

April 9, 1975..

April 10, 1975..

June 9, 1975.

Text of part X-Education and Training of the Handicapped..

Text of H.R. 7217.....

Statement of-

Bell, Hon. Terrel H., U.S. Commissioner of Education, Department

of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by: Richard A.

Hastings, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation

(Education), DHEW: and Edwin W. Martin, Jr., Deputy Com-

missioner, Bureau of Education for the Handicapped.-

Harris, James A., president of the National Education Association..

Megel, Carl J., director of legislation, American Federation of Teach-

ers, AFL-CIO

Schifter, Richard, vice president, Maryland State Board of Education.
Smith, George, Superintendent, San Diego School Board
Statement of the Consortium Concerned with the Developmentally
Disabled presented by: Walter Cegalka, National Association of
Retarded Citizens; Dudley Kontx, United Cerebral Palsy; Beverly
Rowan, the Joseph Kennedy Foundation; and Janet Rhoads,
American Occupational Therapy Association...

Steinhilber, August W., assistant executive director, office of Federal

relations, National School Boards Association_

Weintraub, Frederick J., assistant executive director, Council for

Exceptional Children.....

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Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials etc.:

Bell, Hon. T. H., U.S. Commissioner of Education, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare, prepared statement of..

Excerpt from Congressional Record, June 11, 1974---

Harris, James A., president, National Education Association:

Estimated number of handicapped children served and unserved

by type of handicap (table).

Prepared statement..

McIntyre, Francis X., assistant state superintendent for the division

of special education, Maryland State Department of Education,

prepared statement of...

Smith, George, Superintendent, San Diego School Board:

Cost analysis of special education programs.-

Questions and answers requested of George Smith

Steinhilber, August W., assistant executive director, office of Federal

relations, prepared statement of

Weintraub, Frederick J., assistant executive director for governmental

relations, The Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, Va.,

prepared statement of__

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