This directory offers a list of providers, planners, and researchers involved in respite care services for families with children who are mentally retarded, behaviorally disturbed, or physically disabled. The directory, based on information available as of October 1989, lists over 1,800 respite care providers and their addresses and telephone numbers. The entries are arranged alphabetically by state. An appendix, revised in December 1990, lists respite care and crisis nursery service providers who are grantees of funding under the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act. (JDD)