It's a Matter of Opinion At Special Educators' Meeting

Denver--As testimony to how difficult it is to reach a consensus on procedures and responsibilities for the "full inclusion'' of students with disabilities, panel members during one session at the Council for Exceptional Children's annual meeting here seemed at times to border on the less than cordial.

At one point, B. Joseph Ballard, the assistant executive director of the C.E.C., suggested facetiously that "the federal government ought to provide secretaries for our teachers'' to handle the paperwork associated with the administration of special education.

But Thomas Hehir, the director of the federal office of special-education programs, countered with a...