ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Abstract

Individual State Conferences on Handicapped Individuals are now being planned as a prelude to the White House Conference scheduled for May 25-29, 1977. State conferences are intended to provide men tally and physically handicapped individuals and their parents and advocates an opportunity to pre sent their needs, problems, and suggested solu tions to the persons who will be representing them at the White House Conference. The State-level meetings are required by law (Pub. L. 93-516) to be held at least 120 days prior to the national con ference, which was recently postponed from the originally scheduled date of December, 1976 (S.J.