This study encompasses a national survey of rules and regulations governing the participation of exceptional children in interscholastic athletics and a search to determine any legal basis for the exclusion of exceptional children from such competition. Medical guidelines, playing rules, and a hierarchical structure of physical education and athletics are described
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