This booklet offers teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents practical, easy-to-read suggestions to help them understand emotional and behavioral development and disabilities in young children. Through a variety of examples, the booklet emphasizes techniques that show the teacher how to encourage and assist the young child to move toward emotional maturity and self-discipline. This guide should prove helpful in training teachers and caregivers who work with handicapped children in a regular classroom. Cartoon-style drawings illustrate the text. (CS)