For the sake of our children : poverty and disabilities / Travis Thompson -- Prevention of disabilities : priorities and research directions / Duane F. Alexander -- Maternal nutrition and the primary prevention of disabilities / Judith E. Brown -- Resiliency and vulnerability to adverse developmental outcomes associated with poverty / Norman Garmezy -- Longitudinal interventions : virtues and limitations / James J. Gallagher -- Education for young children in inner-city classrooms / Judith J. Carta -- Promoting cognitive competence in children at risk / Susan C. Hupp --Improving educational expectations for young children who have Down Syndrome : "chromosomes don't have the last word" / John E. Rynders -- Chosen ones : adopted children with disabilities / Laraine Masters Glidden -- The new morbidity : a national plan of action / Alfred A. Baumeister, Frank D. Kupstas, Luann M. Klindworth