This article provides an overview of this issue of TECSE and identifies key issues that emerged from the First Annual Gulf Coast Early Intervention Conference in May of 1986. Issues such as identification of the parameters of effective early intervention, the degree of attention to family and societal concerns, the impact of ecologically based models on the quality of intervention, and establishment of the social validity of interventions were among the critical topics presented. The concepts and ideas presented in this and other articles are intended to challenge current and future thinking regarding early intervention.
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