1. William R. Holcomb received his PhD in counseling psychology in 1979. He currently is coordinator of treatment services at Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Missouri. His major research interests include learning disabilities, young adult chronic psychiatric patients, and mental health delivery systems. Address: William R. Holcomb, PhD, Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center, 3 Hospital Dr., Columbia, MO 65201.
2. Russell Hardesty is a consultant or learning disabilities and behavior disorders to schools in Missouri and is director of the Columbia Resource Center, Inc. He received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 1973.
3. Nicholas A. Adams is an associate professor of research design and statistics in the Graduate College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His doctoral concentration was in psychometrics, statistics, and experimental psychology at the American University, Washington, DC.
4. Howard Ponder is a self-employed computer consultant in Columbia. Missouri and received his doctorate in education from the University of Missouri-Columbia.