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For Immediate Release: October 19, 1979

The Bureau of Indian Affairs' advisory committee for exceptional children will meet October 26-27 in Phoenix, Arizona, to examine and discuss unmet needs of exceptional Indian children, the Director of Indian Education Programs, Earl Barlow said today.

The Committee operates in accordance with the requirements of the amended Education of the Handicapped Act.

The meeting, which will be at the Los Olivos Hotel from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is open to the public.

Notice of the meeting is being published in the Federal Register.

For additional information contact Goodwin Cobb, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 19th and E Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20240 (202-343-5519).