These summarized proceedings focus on the positive aspects of knowing, living with, and loving a child or an adult with a disability and ways in which service providers and policymakers could be more responsive to special family needs. An introductory chapter defines a family and family life and outlines seven premises that shape the specification of needs and strategies for enhancing family life. The report then addresses five areas of family life: daily living and health; educational and vocational development; financial, legal, and advocacy issues; socialization, leisure, and sexuality; and emotional development. Each section begins with a vignette written by a participant to illuminate family life with a disabled person. Each section then presents a list of needs, recommended strategies to respond to those needs, a brief description of a model program, a summary table with cross references between strategies and needs, and two case studies. Recommendations involve such issues as accepting families' and disabled persons' desires for placements in integrated settings, providing flexibility in guidelines for funding services, and allowing families to decide which services they actually want to use. (JDD)